Re: Php & Directory structures

Just a suggestion: use exec("ls -1 root/articles/??_head.xml",$article_files) to find out the files -- then walk $article_files, parse the file and echo whatever you please. :-) Bogdan Martin Hughes wrote: > Heya, > > Can PHP count the number of a certain ftile in a directory and then print > the result to the screen? I have articles on my site that are in XML/XSL > format like: > > root/articles/00_head.xml > 00_body.xml > 01_head.xml > 01_body.xml > 02_head.xml > 02_body.xml > etc... (with appropriate XSL stylesheets too...) > > and I want to have a main "article page" with the head.xml info on it: > > Article 00: > By: <author> > Date: <whatever date> > Subject: <subject> > > and then a link to the article itself (which will be an XSL stylesheet > loading both the header info and the article body.xml). > > Can php count the number of articles etc in the dir and then automatically > create the page? (or can anyone think of a better way of doing this???? :-)) > > Cheers, > > Martin > > -- > 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