Get folder name

[memermore]

How can I get all folder names from a specific directory and list them using PHP?

[stepterr]

How can I get all folder names from a specific directory and list them using PHP?

Check out the scandir function. This should help you out.

[memermore]

Check out the scandir function. This should help you out.

It didn't work. i received a "call to undefined function" error. is this has something to do with my PHP version? I'm using PHP 4

[svenni]

scandir is PHP5, so to do the same in PHP4 you would need a different approach, which means a couple more lines of code.

I've done this some time ago, but I couldn't find my own code at the moment, so I found a similar code here :
[PHP]
<?php
// declare the folder
$ourDir = "/home/public_html/folderName";

// prepare to read directory contents
$ourDirList = @opendir($ourDir);

// loop through the items
while ($ourItem = readdir($ourDirList))
{
// check if it is a directory
if (is_dir($ourItem))
{
echo "directory: $ourItem <br />";
}
// check to see if it is a file
if (is_file($ourItem))
{
echo "file: $ourItem <br />";
}
}

closedir($ourDirList);
?>
[/PHP]
This should work in PHP4 as well as PHP5.

[stepterr]

Yep, svenni is correct that is a PHP 5 function. Svenni's method should work for what you want. If you want to see more directory functions, check out this site

[memermore]

That is exactly what I'm trying to get. thanks guys! By the way do you any ways of searching a file from a specific directory? including its subdirectories? and display a list of search results. As of now I'm thinking of using a database for that but I'm still hoping for a better alternative

[svenni]

That is exactly what I'm trying to get. thanks guys! By the way do you any ways of searching a file from a specific directory? including its subdirectories? and display a list of search results. As of now I'm thinking of using a database for that but I'm still hoping for a better alternative

I think listing all the files in a database might be a good idea, but it depends on the amount of files. It shouldn't be a big problem for PHP to loop through lets say 100 files and return the ones which match your criteria, but if you have more than 1000 files I guess it would be best to use the indexing features in MySQL to search faster. The problem would though be the fact that the database needs to be updated once in a while, and I'm not quite sure about how often.

Anyways, good luck!

[Lightlord]

I could use some help with almost something similar:


I am trying to get php to read the folder name that php is in and write it to a text file.

i.e. www.mydomain.com/john

I need the script to write john to a text file

although this will not work; something close:

<?php

$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]
$your_data =($_SERVER);

// Open the file and erase the contents if any

$fp = fopen("textfile_name.txt", "w");

// Write the data to the file
fwrite($fp, $your_data);

// Close the file
fclose($fp);

?>



The overall all goal is to also perform the following if possible using php.



when it write the folder name:

the folder named one of the two ways:

/bob
/mary-jane

can it upppercase to Bob
can it upper case to Mary Jane and drop the -


anyone have any ideas?


The end result is flash to read the txt file and so it can write it into the flash sction script.


The part I am not sure is after php writes it to the text file, will it happen before flash reads the txt file?



Thanks for any assistance


LL

[tazosmr]

i've done that job with the code, which gets and outputs the file path:

<?php
$Path=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$URI='http://www.example.com'.$Path;

echo "$URI";
?>