help with opening and reading directories.

Chizzad

I am working on a script to open a directory and read the image files in it. I got it working with the $currentdir variable if the php file is in the same directory as it is opening. Now i wanna move that file out(two directories up) and read the directory from there. I have searched and used a bunch of methods, such as

$path='/images/pictures/';

$dir=opendir("$path");

$path='/images/pictures/';

$dir=opendir("$path");

$path='/home/public_html/Chad3/images/pictures/';

$dir=opendir("$path");

$path=$currentdir.'/images/pictures/';

$dir=opendir("$path");

none of these methods are working. Am I missing something or is there another way to do this?

thanx for the help

chad

phil_j_poore

from first looking at it dont use the leading slash if it isn't a absolute path.
e.g.
if folder images is in same folder as script then the path to images is "images/" not "/images/"
More info on paths and the internet

devinemke

use [man]file_exists[/man] to make sure the path is valid:

$path = '/home/public_html/Chad3/images/pictures/'; 
if (file_exists($path))
{
	$dir = opendir($path);
}
else
{
	echo 'the path ' . $path . ' is invalid'; 
}

Chizzad

thanx for the quick help guys!

phil:
read up on some of that info and took out the leading slash and still had no results.

devine:
inserted that code and I don't recieve the error message. So it seems that the directory is valid.

thanks again for the help but I am still unsure about where to go to next.