How To Get Files/directories Within A Selected Direcotry?

[Vertrex]

Hello to the people of HelioHost.

 

After a long time of using your service, this is the first time I've decided to actually brighten up my dull brain.

 

My question is simply (hopefully understandable). I am trying to write a script that enables me to read in files and directories from sub folders and then read in the data from them.

 

Many thanks in advance.

[Lugus]

Hello,

I found this function on the web which permits you to list all the files in a specific directory and its sub-directories.

 

function ListFiles($dir) {
   if($dh = opendir($dir)) {
    $files = Array();
    $inner_files = Array();
    while($file = readdir($dh)) {
	    if($file != "." && $file != ".." && $file[0] != '.') {
		    if(is_dir($dir . "/" . $file)) {
			    $inner_files = ListFiles($dir . "/" . $file);
			    if(is_array($inner_files)) $files = array_merge($files, $inner_files);
		    } else {
			    array_push($files, $dir . "/" . $file);
		    }
	    }
    }
    closedir($dh);
    return $files;
   }
}

 

And here's how to use it:

 

foreach (ListFiles('YOUR-DIRECTORY') as $key=>$file){
   echo $file ."<br />";
}

 

I hope it helps.

[Hairy DJ]

Byron has worked with RecursiveDirectoryIterator to make a search tool for file managers. I don't know how much PHP you know but I wouldn't call it a project for beginners but feel free to ask questions.

http://www.eclecticdjs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=934

http://www.eclecticdjs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=943

[Byron]

Here's a site serach I made awhile back using RecursiveDirectoryIterator and posted somewhere in this forum:

 

http://byrondallas.heliohost.org/helio/site_search.txt

 

Just upload it to your site and rename it with a .php extension. To search for a file it goes like this:

 

Searching for a file named white_rose.jpg. Enter rose as the file name and any files with the name rose will show up in the results. To show all files that end in php enter .php as the file. To show ALL files in a directory, enter a . (dot). The check box that says Stop recursive means to keep it from searching in subdirectories.

 

[Vertrex]

wow.

 

Thanks so much for your answers

 

It's not exactly a project Jairy DJ. I'm just trying to get certain files out of the file system. Truth be told, I'm not very good at php or any other coding language except VB but idk how to apply VB on a website.

[Lugus]

wow.

 

Thanks so much for your answers

 

It's not exactly a project Jairy DJ. I'm just trying to get certain files out of the file system. Truth be told, I'm not very good at php or any other coding language except VB but idk how to apply VB on a website.

 

It's not a hard task to setup a vb script, there are lots of tuts on the web and I can help you too if you encountered any trouble.

Good luck!

[Vertrex]

cool. Thanks for the offer Lugus

[Ice IT Support]

VBscript is a client-side language that only works in Internet Explorer, thus wouldn't be much use for what you are trying to do here. To add a VBscript to your webpage, use:

<script type="text/vbscript">
'Your code here
</script>