Glob question

[motoxpress]

I have a little function that is taking a list of files in a directory and putting them in a form select. It works great except I am getting the directory path as well as the file name and I just want the filename in the select. How can I accomplish that?

foreach (glob("/directory_path/*.wmv")as $filename) {
    echo "<option value=\"$filename\">$filename</option>";
}

This displays:

<select name="file"><option value="none" selected>Select a file</option><option value="/directory_path/file1.wmv">/directory_path/file1.wmv</option><option value="/directory_path/file2.wmv">/directory_path/file2.wmv</option>

-mx

[_uk_stuff]

You could use the basename function on the filename.

This would only then return the filename excluding the path as requested;

foreach (glob("/directory_path/*.wmv")as $filename) {
    echo "<option value=\"". basename($filename) ."\">". basename($filename) ."</option>";
}

[motoxpress]

Excellent. Thank you.

[NogDog]

Another option is to [man]chdir/man to the target directory, then you don't need to include the directory path in the glob().

$curdir = getcwd();
chdir('/some/other/directory');
$files = glob('*.wmv');
chdir($curdir); // back to where we started