Re: code quest

my current code is as follows: *<ul> <?php # The next several lines declare an array of directories which are NOT to be listed! $excludes[] = 'images'; $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;
     }

} ?> </ul>* The page containing this is at this url: http://www.howlermonkey.net/dirlisting.php I believe this will be a starting point for the functionality I am looking for- an automatic menu of areas in a website one may go to. By excluding some folders, people don't go trespassing into the cgi-bin or images folder, or into areas reserved for administrative uses. 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;

} } ?>

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