Re: Directory list - showing an image for each file

A couple ideas occur to me. 1) There's a facility in Apache to do this, I think... Read httpd.conf 2) You could at least have multiple cases and they "fall through" to the same value: switch(...){ case '.mp3': case '.au': case '.wav': case '.snd': case '.aiff': case '.rm': case '.ra': $fileTypeImage = "sound.gif"; break; case '.gif': case '.jpg': $fileTypeImage = 'image.gif'; break; } 3) Perhaps an array would make more sense.... $fileTypeImages = array('.mp3' => 'sound.gif', '.snd' => 'sound.gif', . . ); $fileTypeImage = $fileTypeImage[$ext]; Another possiblity is to have it all in a database table, if you're already using a databse connection anyway. That way, you needn't edit your source code every time a new file format pops up -- Just build a quickie web interface to your database table. You do realize, of course, that technically, you can't guarantee that your extension mapping will be correct -- If somebody really wanted to play with your mind, they *could* use .gif for PHP and .php for GIF... :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Nelson" <nelsonj@inconnect.com> Newsgroups: php.general Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 1:42 PM Subject: [PHP] Directory list - showing an image for each file > I'd like to show an image for each type of file in a directory list. I wrote > this function, but as you can see, it can get out of hand pretty easily. > Does anyone know of a better way? Here's the function: > > function getFileType($file) { > // Find the position of the last "." in the file name > $pos = strrpos( $file, "." ); > > // Extract the file extension using $pos > $ext = strtolower( substr( $file, $pos ) ); > > // Determine what type of icon to use for this file type > file://-- **** Is there a better way to do this? **** --// > switch ( $ext ) { > case ".mp3": > $fileTypeImage = "sound.gif"; > break; > case ".wav": > $fileTypeImage = "sound.gif"; > break; > case ".au": > $fileTypeImage = "sound.gif"; > break; > case ".jpg": > $fileTypeImage = "image.gif"; > break; > case ".gif": > $fileTypeImage = "image.gif"; > break; > case ".avi": > $fileTypeImage = "movie.gif"; > break; > case ".mpg": > $fileTypeImage = "movie.gif"; > break; > case ".mpeg": > $fileTypeImage = "movie.gif"; > break; > case ".mpe": > $fileTypeImage = "movie.gif"; > break; > case ".mpa": > $fileTypeImage = "movie.gif"; > break; > case ".mov": > $fileTypeImage = "movie.gif"; > break; > case ".qt": > $fileTypeImage = "movie.gif"; > break; > case ".ram": > $fileTypeImage = "movie.gif"; > break; > default: > $fileTypeImage = "unknown.gif"; > } > return $fileTypeImage; > } > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >