Re: code quest

Now Now, fight nice. We don need no stinkin' @$^*$^(! woids here. :-P Steve Staples wrote:

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 10:07 -0500, Daniel P. Brown wrote:

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 23:13, Kirk Bailey <kbailey@howlermonkey.net> wrote: [snip!]

    
Can this be improved to exclude anything with a '.' or a '-' in it's name?

This will exclude the smileys and cgi-bin and such. If it can be persuaded to read a 1 line description from each subdirectory it could then use THAT as the text in the link, instead of the name. This could be useful in many settings.

Sure. Change:

        if (is_dir($d) && $d != '.' && $d != '..') {

    To:

        if (is_dir($d) && !preg_match('/[\.\-]/',$d)) {

    Keep in mind, though, that the change will no longer show anything

that matches the below either:

        example.directory
        example-directory
        special-images
        css.files

    In other words, you may instead want to explicitly state which

directories to omit, and then drop anything that begins with a dot as well (hidden directories on *NIX-like boxes) like so: <?php $excludes[] = 'cgi-bin'; $excludes[] = 'vti_cnf'; $excludes[] = 'private'; $excludes[] = 'thumbnail'; $ls = scandir(dirname(__FILE__)); foreach ($ls as $d) { if (is_dir($d) && !preg_match('/^\./',basename($d)) && !in_array(basename($d),$excludes)) {

      echo '<li><a href="'.$d.'">'.$d.'</a><br/>'.PHP_EOL;

} } ?> -- </Daniel P. Brown> Dedicated Servers, Cloud and Cloud Hybrid Solutions, VPS, Hosting (866-) 725-4321 http://www.parasane.net/

damn you Daniel... I was just about to reply with almost the EXACT same answer!!! I think the last example would probably be the best one to use, that way you can still have some directories with the . or - or even the _ in the names, and still be able to display them. Steve ps thanks for saving me type it all out Daniel :) -- end Very Truly yours, - Kirk Bailey, Largo Florida kniht +-----+ | BOX | +-----+ think