arrays and directory content

directory listing into array

[kumarsena]

dear friends,

i have been thinking about improving my pic album script by including some sort of paging system. now im awasre there are a few tutorials out there, but i would like to do thi from scrathc just to learn. so...
anyone out there who knows if there is a function thta will read the contents of a folder and write it to an array. or do i have to play around and insert into array using a while loop and readdir()? any input would be appreciated.

thanks
kumar

[jatar_k]

try this, I think it will load the filenames into an array and then echo them to screen, havent tested though

<?  
$mydir = "/path/to/dir/";  
$d = dir($mydir);  
while($entry = $d->read()) {  
 if ($entry!= "." && $entry!= "..") {  
 $filearr[] = $entry; 
 }  
}  
$d->close(); 
echo "<ul>"; 
for each ($filearr as $filename) { 
 echo "<li>"$filename; 
} 
echo "</ul>"; 
?>

[kumarsena]

thanks will ahve ago at it. and post the results...

[kumarsena]

hey,

the code had a bug but otherwise is working fine.

these two lines (original code) were modified:

for each ($filearr as $filename) {
echo "<li>"$filename;

for some reason the secind line wasnt working, but i couldnt figure out why, just changed it...new code as below

<? $mydir = "mydir";

$d = dir($mydir);
while($entry = $d->read())
{
if ($entry!= "." && $entry!= "..") {
$filearr[] = $entry; }
}

$d->close();
echo "<ul>";
<b>foreach ($filearr as $filename) {</b>

<b> echo $filename;
echo "<br />";</b>

}

echo "</ul>";?>

thanks jatar_k! (i assume its GPL, rite? :) )
hope this is useful some others too...

[kumarsena]

ok just ignore teh bold tags, just tried to highlite some parts...

[jatar_k]

oops my fault kumarsena,

echo "<li>"$filename;

should be

echo "<li>",$filename;

I forgot the comma