Getting directory contests using DIR

[Sonnich]

Hi all

I was wondering to try something like this:

exec("dir \"".$sSearchPath."\\*.pdf\" >c:\hhh.txt");

though, it hangs at that point. I tried system(), shell_exec/() etc
similar result.

Have anyone tried this?

S

[Michael Cooney]

Don't execute shell commands to do this. In PHP5 use
http://php.net/scandir, in PHP4 use http://php.net/readdir.

Sonnich wrote:

Hi all

I was wondering to try something like this:

exec("dir \"".$sSearchPath."\\*.pdf\" >c:\hhh.txt");

though, it hangs at that point. I tried system(), shell_exec/() etc
similar result.

Have anyone tried this?

S

[Sonnich]

The idea is to speed it up, when e.g. as now, reading that 126 times,
it becomes slow.
The idea is to create this file, and check the time for it. When it is
"new", I can use it for checking whether certain files are presnt, and
run the dir only once.
It is much faster to read in a txt file than running the opendir
request again.

Current I run it 126 with the present values - orders. They might
change, but since a large amount of those are similar, they might be in
the same places.

Anyway, I found that a small test programme with this works, while a my
current software does not like it, and stops at that point.

BR
Sonnich

Michael Cooney wrote:

Don't execute shell commands to do this. In PHP5 use
http://php.net/scandir, in PHP4 use http://php.net/readdir.

Sonnich wrote:

Hi all

I was wondering to try something like this:

exec("dir \"".$sSearchPath."\\*.pdf\" >c:\hhh.txt");

though, it hangs at that point. I tried system(), shell_exec/() etc
similar result.

Have anyone tried this?

S

[Michael Cooney]

What's stopping you from writing the results of readdir to a file from
within PHP?

Sonnich wrote:

The idea is to speed it up, when e.g. as now, reading that 126 times,
it becomes slow.
The idea is to create this file, and check the time for it. When it is
"new", I can use it for checking whether certain files are presnt, and
run the dir only once.
It is much faster to read in a txt file than running the opendir
request again.

Current I run it 126 with the present values - orders. They might
change, but since a large amount of those are similar, they might be in
the same places.

Anyway, I found that a small test programme with this works, while a my
current software does not like it, and stops at that point.

BR
Sonnich

Michael Cooney wrote:

Don't execute shell commands to do this. In PHP5 use
http://php.net/scandir, in PHP4 use http://php.net/readdir.

Sonnich wrote:

Hi all
>
I was wondering to try something like this:
>
exec("dir \"".$sSearchPath."\\*.pdf\" >c:\hhh.txt");
>
though, it hangs at that point. I tried system(), shell_exec/() etc
similar result.
>
Have anyone tried this?
>
S

[Sonnich]

Michael Cooney wrote:

What's stopping you from writing the results of readdir to a file from
within PHP?

It is slow.

I found a problem - while this works:
exec("dir c:\\*.* >".dirname(__FILE__)."\\hh.txt");

then this does not

exec("dir \\\\some_server\\dir1\\dir2\\*.*

>".dirname(__FILE__)."\\hh.txt");

it does not like the server path.... hmmm might wannt look at the
server....

S

>
Sonnich wrote:

The idea is to speed it up, when e.g. as now, reading that 126 times,
it becomes slow.
The idea is to create this file, and check the time for it. When it is
"new", I can use it for checking whether certain files are presnt, and
run the dir only once.
It is much faster to read in a txt file than running the opendir
request again.

Current I run it 126 with the present values - orders. They might
change, but since a large amount of those are similar, they might be in
the same places.

Anyway, I found that a small test programme with this works, while a my
current software does not like it, and stops at that point.

BR
Sonnich

Michael Cooney wrote:

Don't execute shell commands to do this. In PHP5 use
http://php.net/scandir, in PHP4 use http://php.net/readdir.
>
Sonnich wrote:
Hi all

I was wondering to try something like this:

exec("dir \"".$sSearchPath."\\*.pdf\" >c:\hhh.txt");

though, it hangs at that point. I tried system(), shell_exec/() etc
similar result.

Have anyone tried this?

S