note 16090 modified in function.stristr by victor

From: Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 10:34:30 +0000
Subject: note 16090 modified in function.stristr by victor
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[Editor's note: blaster at jazz4ever dot tk tells us that it's bad to use this check for the extension since double extensions can be used (eg file.jpg.vbs which could be a virus)] i used this function to scan a directory searching for images: $eleimg=opendir("../$dir"); while ($file=readdir($eleimg)) { if (stristr($file,".jpg") || stristr($file,".gif")) { echo "<option value='$file'>$file\n"; } } --was-- i used this function to scan a directory searching for images: $eleimg=opendir("../$dir"); while ($file=readdir($eleimg)) { if (stristr($file,".jpg") || stristr($file,".gif")) { echo "<option value='$file'>$file\n"; } } http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stristr.php

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