opening a file when you do not know the full name

[bill]

I have a directory into which I upload pictures. I know the
entire file name other than the extension.

file_exists will return true when I give it a wildcard extension,
but I can't figure out the best way to determine the extension
for fopen.

I sure don't want to troll through the entire directory with
readdir.

I would appreciate suggestions.

bill

[pangea33]

bill wrote:

I have a directory into which I upload pictures. I know the
entire file name other than the extension.

file_exists will return true when I give it a wildcard extension,
but I can't figure out the best way to determine the extension
for fopen.

I sure don't want to troll through the entire directory with
readdir.

I would appreciate suggestions.

bill

If you use the "find" command with exec() you can get a list of files
that match your criteria. Essentially using the filename you already
know, and then a wildcard for the extension...

find /var/www/directory/pics2 -name "weddingphoto.*"

For me this outputs: /var/www/directory/pics2/weddingphoto.jpg

If you output the results into a file or into a variable, you can then
parse it for whatever is relevent to you.

find /var/www/directory/pics2 -name "weddingphoto.*" >
/var/www/directory/pics2/results.txt

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(bill)

>I have a directory into which I upload pictures. I know the
entire file name other than the extension.

file_exists will return true when I give it a wildcard extension,
but I can't figure out the best way to determine the extension
for fopen.

http://www.php.net/glob

Micha

[pangea33]

Michael Fesser wrote:

.oO(bill)

I have a directory into which I upload pictures. I know the
entire file name other than the extension.

file_exists will return true when I give it a wildcard extension,
but I can't figure out the best way to determine the extension
for fopen.

http://www.php.net/glob

Micha

Not so sure that I agree using a function in an application, that
communicates with the OS via a webserver, is a better choice than
something native to the operating system, but this solution will
definitely work. Probably easier to handle the result set too.

[bill]

pangea33 wrote:

Michael Fesser wrote:

>.oO(bill)

>>I have a directory into which I upload pictures. I know the
entire file name other than the extension.

file_exists will return true when I give it a wildcard extension,
but I can't figure out the best way to determine the extension
for fopen.

http://www.php.net/glob

Micha

Not so sure that I agree using a function in an application, that
communicates with the OS via a webserver, is a better choice than
something native to the operating system, but this solution will
definitely work. Probably easier to handle the result set too.

In my case where there is only one result, should work a treat.

Thanks

bill