Ok, Here's what I want to do. I want to be able to display all the
files in a directory as links on webpage so that the user can just
click the link to download the appropriate file. I can make this work
with the following bit of code. The files all have basically the same
format:
backup-<date created>.sql.ta r
What the following code does not do is to show the files in
alphabetical or chronological order. I think I could read the names
into an array and then sort them, but it seems that there must be an
easier way. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Mike
<?php
//create the html to display the selection page
echo '<html>';
echo '<body>';
echo '<h1>Click on the backup file to save it to your PC.</h1>';
echo '<ul>';
//open the data directory and read the names of all the files
//into a list to be displayed on the page
$handle=opendir ('/www/htdocs/backups/data/');
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle ))){
//if the list returns . or .. skip the display step
//and continue looping
if(($file == ".") OR ($file == "..")){continue ;}
//print out the name of the file so that it can be
//selected for download
echo '<li><a href="/tmaster/backups/data/'.$file.'">'.$f ile.'</a></li>';
}
//close the direcotry
closedir($handl e);
echo '</ul>';
echo '</body>';
echo '</html>';
?>
