Re: Building a list of filenames (w2k)

I suggest checking the php.net site for doing this. You can use their search box to search on particular subjects of PHP. For example, what you want to do involves files and directories. YOu want to read from a directory and list the files. So, on php.net, in the search box, you can type: dir and it will take you to the appropriate documentation (of course, you may not already know that, so you can't find the documention. Anyway, here's a link to useing directories: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dir.php and if you want to deal directly with files, here's a link for doing that: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file.php Below is sample code I just copied and pasted, and slightly modified, from the 1st link. It's an example of listing the files in a directory and returning them in an array. ====================================== ## $dirname is the path of the directory you want to list files from. function list_dir($dirname) { $result_array =a rray(); $handle = opendir( $dirname ); while ( $file = readdir( $handle ) ) { if( $file == '.' || $file == '..' ) continue; if( is_dir( $dirname.$file ) ) { list_dir( $dirname.$file ); ## recursion; gets subdirectories } else { $result_array[] = $dirname.$file; } } closedir($handle); return $result_array; } ================================ "George Pitcher" <fmdev@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:027c01c1b091$0214ab20$630db092@HLATITUDE... > Hi all, > > I want to build a list of filenames from a particular directory. I can't > find anything like this in the manual or on the list archive so any pointers > would be appreciated. > > George >