Re: drop down menu populated from a directory

ok, I added brackets and made my code to: <?php if ($handle = opendir('../../../mov')) { while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {

       if ($file != '.' && $file != '..') {

           $fileName = str_replace('.mov', '', $file);
           echo '<option value="../../../mov/' . $file . '">' . $fileName . '</option>';
       }

} closedir($handle); } ?> when viewing my page in a browser, it worked! Now what I am hoping to do is put this menu on a PHP page, and have a qt movie placeholder and when this menu is used - replace the placeholder with the selected qt movie... I am just not sure how to do this. Thanks in advance! d On 31-May-04, at 10:26 AM, Dustin Krysak wrote:

I gave it a go, and I got the error: "Parse error: parse error, unexpected '}'" This was on the last "}". Now I am brand new at php, but should there not be an opening and closing curly bracket? in this code there are one "{" and three "}" So I made my code: <?php if ($handle = opendir('../../../mov')) { while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle)))

       if ($file != '.' && $file != '..')

           $fileName = str_replace('.mov', '', $file);
           echo '<option value="' . $file . '">' . $fileName . '</option>';

closedir($handle); } ?> And it does display the name in the menu... so that is a good start, but the link doesn't work when selected. So I am assuming hte code does need those brackets, and I rather need to open the opening one... d On 31-May-04, at 2:39 AM, php-general-digest-help@lists.php.net wrote:

From: "Torsten Roehr" <roehr@zilleon.com> Date: May 30, 2004 5:14:28 PM PDT To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: drop down menu populated from a directory "Dustin Krysak" <mailinglists@digitalcollision.com> wrote in message news:B965865C-B293-11D8-8990-000A95902366@digitalcollision.com...

Hi there.... What I am hoping to do is have a drop down menu that would be populated from the contents of a directory via php. Now The link names would be generated by the file name minus the file extension. Has anyone seen a tutorial on accomplishing something like this? All of the links would be to quicktime movies, but I am hoping to have them embedded in HTML (or PHP)..... So the movie is displayed in a browser.... thanks in advance!

This should do the trick: // opening select tag goes here... if ($handle = opendir('/path/to/files')) { while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle)))

       if ($file != '.' && $file != '..')

           $fileName = str_replace('.mov', '', $file);
           echo '<option value="' . $file . '">' . $fileName . '</option>';
       }

} closedir($handle); } // closing select tag goes here Haven't tested it. Hope it works and helps ;) Regards, Torsten Roehr