Array Processing Question

MichiganJim

I have a changeable list of files that need to be sent as email attachments. My cgi app can process and assemble the list then pass it on to PHP.

I'm running into trouble when trying to put the files and their paths into an array.

This works:

$path = '/Library/WebServer/Documents/TheSite/TheFiles';
$files = array($path.'/ThisFile.pdf',$path.'/ThatFile.pdf');

And this works:

$files = array('/Library/WebServer/Documents/TheSite/TheFiles/ThisFile.pdf','/Library/WebServer/Documents/TheSite/TheFiles/ThatFile.pdf');

So this should work, but it fails to find the files:

$filelist = '/Library/WebServer/Documents/TheSite/TheFiles/ThisFile.pdf','/Library/WebServer/Documents/TheSite/TheFiles/ThatFile.pdf';
$files = array($filelist);

I've tried other variations but can't find a way to handle it.

The need is to find a format for the path and file name as in $filelist above. I can't see any other way to format a changing list of file names and combine them with the path to make the equivalent of $path.'/ThisFile.pdf',$path.'/ThatFile.pdf'

NogDog

I think maybe what you're after is [man]explode/man? 😕

MichiganJim

I think I'm trying to go the other way.

In my cgi app, I have a list, an array, of several file names such as This.pdf, That.pdf, etc.. I know where they are so I have the path. I can pass the list of files as is to PHP separately or I can add the path to each file name.

It seems that putting them together would be best before I pass it to PHP., so each would become /Library/WebServer/Documents/TheSite/TheFiles/ThisFile.pdf

In my cgi I can very easily format it with quotes, commas or whatever, but I just can't find the syntax to get the same end result in the PHP process.

So I'm looking for the syntax that would make this list:
/Library/WebServer/Documents/TheSite/TheFiles/ThisFile.pdf
/Library/WebServer/Documents/TheSite/TheFiles/ThatFile.pdf

become the same as $files after being run through this:

$path = '/Library/WebServer/Documents/TheSite/TheFiles'; 
$files = array($path.'/ThisFile.pdf',$path.'/ThatFile.pdf');

sneakyimp

have you tried a print_r to see what is in $files? Maybe you have a typo?

MichiganJim

NogDog;10986956 wrote:
I think maybe what you're after is [man]explode/man? 😕

Yes, I now understand what explode( does and that is the solution to converting my list to an array.

Thanks NogDog!!

MichiganJim

sneakyimp;10986983 wrote:
have you tried a print_r to see what is in $files? Maybe you have a typo?

There was no typo, but this gave me the insight to what I was getting versus what I wanted. I knew of print or echo, but print_r was new. Thanks.