How to list the files in a directory...

[dlgilbert]

I looked through the manual and this forum for the answer to this, but I can't find it anywhere (or I don't know it when I see it).

I want to be able to retrieve a list of files in a directory. I need to have a list of "available" files appear to the user, and the "available" files are all the files in a specific directory.

I could enter all the filenames in a MySQL database and do a query, but I wanted to make it a bit simpler than that.

Is there a way to do a directory listing that I'm not finding?

Thanks in advance.
- Dan

[Anon]

List all files in a directory tree under Win32:

function list_dir($dirname)
{
if($dirname[strlen($dirname)-1]!='\')
$dirname.='\';
static $result_array=array();
$handle=opendir($dirname);
while ($file = readdir($handle))
{
if($file=='.'||$file=='..')
continue;
if(is_dir($dirname.$file))
list_dir($dirname.$file.'\');
else
$result_array[]=$dirname.$file;
}
closedir($handle);
return $result_array;

}

Dan Gilbert wrote:

I looked through the manual and this forum for the answer to this, but I can't find it anywhere (or I don't know it when I see it).

I want to be able to retrieve a list of files in a directory. I need to have a list of "available" files appear to the user, and the "available" files are all the files in a specific directory.

I could enter all the filenames in a MySQL database and do a query, but I wanted to make it a bit simpler than that.

Is there a way to do a directory listing that I'm not finding?

Thanks in advance.
- Dan

[Anon]

Use the INCLUDE command

syntax:

include "yourfilename.htm";

or

include "yourfilename.php";

it can also be a variable

$var="pete"
include "$var.htm";

will get: pete.htm

or

$var=8
include "file$var.php";

will get file8.php

[dlgilbert]

I used a slightly different version that works on both NT and Unix...

function get_FileList($dirname) {
$handle=opendir('images/features');
$i = 0;
while (($file = readdir($handle))!==false) {
if (($file != ".") && ($file != "..")) { // don't process the dot directories.
$file_array[$i] = $file;
$i++;
};
};
closedir($handle);
if (sizeof($file_array) > 0) {
return $file_array;
} else {
return false;
};
};

Your answer pointed me in the right direction to find what I needed. Thanks again! :-)