Re: Opening Multiple Files

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Ron Piggott <ron.piggott@actsministries.org > 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. > > Thank you in advance for any help you are able to give me. > > Ron > > The Verse of the Day > “Encouragement from God’s Word” > http://www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info > opendir/closedir and readdir/rewinddir functions come to mind, you can easily iterate through files in a directory that way... -- The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late. ~Seymour Cray