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Title :	grab directory listings into an array the example prints out each subdirectory in the main dir - further work is to be performed on this one
Categories :	Filesystem, PHP, Directories, Search, Utilities	Matt Szubrycht
Date :	May 14th 2000
Grade :	3 of 5 (graded 3 times)
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
<title>SHOW DIRS</title>
</head>

<body>
<?
//if you can make it tighter, please email me - matt@internetbd.com thanks

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// define the following values /
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

#this is the directory you want to index
$startdirname = "/home/sites/site7/pics/";

#if you want to work in the current dir, uncomment the next line
//$startdirname= exec("pwd");

#this is the extension of the files you want to play with
#standard UNIX and derivatives wildcards are allowed
$ext = "jpg";

$dir = exec("ls -l $startdirname", $allentries,$dead);
for ($index=0; $index<count($allentires); $index++){
echo " $allentries[$index] <BR>";
}

#$dir = dir(".");
$dir = dir("$startdirname");

while ($file = readdir($dir)){

if ( !eregi ("(^\.)|(*\.)", $file) ) {
$dirs[] = $file;
$dirnumber = count($dirs);
}
}
echo "<HR>";
for ($i=0; $i < $dirnumber; $i++){
echo $dirs[$i];
echo "<hr>";
}

?>
</body>

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User Comments

Tim N wrote :1758
um, sorry, but ls -al wont work with windows... this is a linux only script.