Directory Listing ...

Alan Searle

I'm a newbie to PHP and need to be able to get a list of the
files/sub-directories from a particular directory on the server (ie: I
want to load the list of files in the program's current directory into
an array).

This must be possible but somehow I can't find the syntax in my
documentation.

Can someone send me a snippet of syntax? Or point me towards a good
'howto' that maybe has a catalogue of PHP commands?

That would be a great help.

Many thanks,
Alan Searle

Jul 17 '05 #1

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Alan Searle wrote:

I'm a newbie to PHP and need to be able to get a list of the
files/sub-directories from a particular directory on the server (ie: I
want to load the list of files in the program's current directory into
an array).

This must be possible but somehow I can't find the syntax in my
documentation.

Can someone send me a snippet of syntax? Or point me towards a good
'howto' that maybe has a catalogue of PHP commands?

That would be a great help.

Many thanks,
Alan Searle

http://www.php.net/dir

Jul 17 '05 #2

Andreas Baumgart

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:52:18 -0400
Alan Searle <aj*******@xxxxyahoo.com> wrote:

I'm a newbie to PHP and need to be able to get a list of the
files/sub-directories from a particular directory on the server (ie: I

want to load the list of files in the program's current directory into
an array).

You can scan a directory with

$handle = opendir("somedirectory");
while($filename = readdir($handle))
$fileslist[] = $filename;
closedir($handle);

In PHP5 there seems to be a single function scandir() which does
exactly what you want.

Greets,
Andreas

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Jul 17 '05 #3

Tim Van Wassenhove

In article <cb**********@newsreader2.netcologne.de>, Alan Searle wrote:

I'm a newbie to PHP and need to be able to get a list of the
files/sub-directories from a particular directory on the server (ie: I
want to load the list of files in the program's current directory into
an array).

This must be possible but somehow I can't find the syntax in my
documentation.
It's in the http://www.php.net/manual.
Can someone send me a snippet of syntax? Or point me towards a good
'howto' that maybe has a catalogue of PHP commands?

Have a look in the archives of this group. It has been posted here this
week already. And probably many times before...

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Tim Van Wassenhove <http://home.mysth.be/~timvw>

Jul 17 '05 #4