file system

jgetner

ok what i'am trying to accomplish is open each file with a wildcard name and only file type known. So saying for exp ( " *.php") so i have used the glob() to accomplish the first part of matching file patterns. This send all files into an array witch is fine untill i would like to open all those files one by one.


 foreach( glob("*.php") as $file) //match file types

   {

 fopen($file, 'rb'); 
 fread and so on 


   }

my question is really how can i open the files that are in the return values of glob() witch is an array.

bradgrafelman

jgetner wrote:
my question is really how can i open the files that are in the return values of glob() witch is an array.

Just like you have it, I would think. Are you getting any error messages or something?

jgetner

when i try to read the file or even get_file_contents nothing displays white page and displays no file content.

<?php


foreach(glob("*.txt") as $file)


{



  $filegets=fopen($file, 'rb');

  if(!isset($filegets) or $filegets == 'FALSE')

  {
  	die('failed');
  }



 $fileread=fread($filegets, '8000');

 if(!isset($fileread) or $fileread='FLASE')

 {
 	die('failed2');
 }

 $matching=preg_match_all('/^build/', $fileread, $matches);


 echo "$matches";

i get my failed2 error so i targeted it not reading the file why? no clue.

bradgrafelman

You've got a couple of problems... first one being here:

  if(!isset($filegets) or $filegets == 'FALSE')

Here, you're checking if $filegets is set, even though you just declared it on the previous line. In other words, using isset() is pointless here and you should simply remove it.

Second problem with that if() statement is that you're comparing $filegets to the string 'FALSE' (the literal word 'false') and not the boolean FALSE you should be checking for. Boolean TRUE and FALSE keywords aren't surrounded in quotes (which are used to delimit strings).

You have this same problem in the next if() statement as well, in addition to another problem:

if(!isset($fileread) or $fileread='FLASE')

Again, the use of isset() is superfluous since the variable was just declared on the line before that if() statement (you might as well be checking that 1+1==2 and 2*2==4), but you also used the assignment operator rather than the comparison operator when checking the $fileread variable.

Last, another problem you'll observe once you fix the above errors is here:

echo "$matches";

$matches is an [man]array[/man], so trying to use [man]echo[/man] on it will yield you nothing but the word "Array".

TheoGB

Wow, 'or' is allowed? I've always used C style || and &&. Amazing... 😃

bradgrafelman

TheoGB;10951342 wrote:
Wow, 'or' is allowed? I've always used C style || and &&. Amazing... 😃

Never seen "or die('msg here');" syntax before? 😉

TheoGB

I think I just thought it was a specific context. I came from C/C++ to PHP so I'm just used to using that form anyway. 🙂

jgetner

or & and are both available to use!.

i got it all working last night but found out php is really picky about opening certian file types and parsing certain characters such as <, ? and so on anything that could be seen as php or HTML.

and those things are my checks i set up throughout my code to make sure it suppose to be doing the right something.

the code i had is prefect except the checks and php not liking anything!

bradgrafelman

jgetner wrote:
php is really picky about opening certian file types and parsing certain characters such as <, ? and so on anything that could be seen as php or HTML.

Erm.. no it's not. PHP doesn't care what the file contains... it'll do whatever you tell it to do. Now, your browser, on the other hand, might try to interpret things as HTML tags that you didn't intend it to if you don't use the proper escaping.

Weedpacket

TheoGB wrote:
I think I just thought it was a specific context. I came from C/C++ to PHP so I'm just used to using that form anyway.

Well, there is a difference in context, specifically their precedence is different.