External text file

King_of_Piracy

Here's my problem...

I have several thousand zip files, and I want to make a text file that has the links to the files. How would I be able to do that.

Just to let you know about how many files I'm going to be working with, around 7,000+

It needs to work with html files also, I have 200+ .swf files I need to link also.

I have never used php, or even looked at it until July, 05, make that I never heard of it until July, 05 :eek:

How would I set up the text file to make it work with php file?

and

How would I set up the php file to make it work with the text file?

The text files will be in the same directory with the zip, swf, so I should be able to use relative links right? I think it is relative the code that has the <a href="thisfile.zip">This File</a>

I think I included everything that I need to know for right now!!!

rickpugh

It's me again....

let me see if I can help you out with this....

I have been working on something very similar in concept to this, but with images....

I have been through about 10 version of php scripts, learning for my mistakes on each one....

One this I would like to suggest to you is that if you are going to have this many files to maintain, I would build a MySQL DB and load these files to it as "blobs" this way it would limite the size of the db....

Next benefit of this option.... if you put this info in a flat file it is going be a big pain the butt to maintain.... if you put it in a DB you can very easily search, add, remove, upload, download, etc.. with PHP because it works hand in hand with MySQL...

To get you started on the right path... I would like to suggest that you search for a script that someone else had already made that will meet some of you needs.... this will help you understand their base concept and you can add to it as you go along...

I would start by searching this site or hotscripts.com for "php file management mysql".... Some of these scripts will cost $$ but there will also be lots of free ones too...

Hope this helps....

King_of_Piracy

thanks man, that helps me out, I'm not really worried about price, .....unless its 100's of dollars, I'm saving $25,000 to work on my eclipse! I think that I can get away with using $100-$150 max!

leatherback

Hi King,

What sort of output would you like to have? In seperate pages? or all in one big list?
If all your really need is one big list, it is a matter of a few lines of code. Don't spend $$ on that.

Let us know, and I am sure there is plenty of help to help yu put this together

leatherback

WHat the ..
Decided to slam something together right now. try this:


<?php

$path = "f:/webroot/bio-vision/website/ecards/gif/";                // set this to wherever your files are stored

$dir = opendir($path);  // create directory handle

  $searchstring = "jpg";  // This set the search to jpegs
  $y=0;

  while (false !== ($file = readdir($dir))) 
    {
    if (false !== strpos($file, $searchstring)) 
      {

  echo "<a href=\"$file\">$file</a><br />
  ";

  $files[$y] = $file;  // in casae you want to do something with the filenames. They are here
  $y++;
  }
}
  closedir($dir);


?>