Directory

[5ub51ded]

How do you read a directory and subdirectories and use their filename as the output? like a search enginge script which searches a directory to find the user's input. how would i do that? i want to kno how to read the directory and make the filename into a string.

[dalecosp]

I'd suggest reading the [man]manual[/man], particular things like [man]fopen/man and [man]fread/man. IIRC, there's a fine tutorial on doing just that.

I'll make mention of the fact that a quick and dirty hack, quite possibly unsafe in a web context, might be:

<?php

$list=`ls -1`;
$listed=explode("\n",$list);
foreach ($listed as $l) {
   echo $l."\n";
}