Re: Opening Multiple Files

On 7 Sep 2011, at 15:21, Ron Piggott wrote: > Hi Everyone > > I am trying to load an HTML book into mySQL. The book was distributed with each chapter being > it’s own HTML file. > > The only way I know how to open a file is by specifying the file name. Such as: > > $myFile = "B01C001.htm"; > $lines = file($myFile); > foreach ($lines as $line_num => $theData) { > > Is there a way PHP will open each file in the directory ending in “.htm”, one file at a > time, without me specifying the file name? > > When the file is open I need the FOREACH (above) to parse the content which ends with an > “INSERT INTO” for a mySQL table. Look at the manual pages for glob and readdir - both will do what you need. -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/