Newbie qustion concening directories and files.

Not getting much of a response to this question on the "General" version of this list so I thought I'd try the windows version. I would appreciate it if someone here had a direction I might try. Sorry that this posting is so long. Thanks in advance. Yrs, Michael WebFlyer Interactive Team ---------- 2428 Hall Ave. Grand Junction, CO. 81501 970.242.1163 Preferred 970.263.4201 Alternative > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Elmore [mailto:melmore@insideflyer.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 1:02 PM > To: PHP-General List > Subject: [PHP] Newbie qustion concening directories and files. > > > Hello everybody. Nice to be a part of your community. Thanks for > allowing me to post my questions here. > > My first question may be more appropriate for the Windows > version of this list, and if any of you feel that this might be > so, please let me know and I will seek guidance there as well as > here. I mention the windows list because I'm developing on a > Windows 98 box using the Xitami server. All seems to be > functioning pretty well for the most part but the code I'm > working on now seems to be giving me fits and I'm not sure why. > This is just my developement environment not the final > environment where the scripts will reside when I'm finished. That > box is a SPARC running Solaris. I don't know if any of this will > have a bearing on your response so I thought it appropriate to > include it for my first posting here. > > My eventual goal is this: I'm wanting to open a "directory" > where several thousand text files will reside, open each "file" > individually, test for content, and then print the contents to my > browser if the content exists. As a step in the right direction I > wrote the following code which was just supposed to retrieve > every file in the directory and print the contents to my browser > window. I thought I'd write the testing in later. > > Anyway, when I run the code I get the following error: > "Parse error: parse error in > C:/XITAMI/webpages/php/test_opendir.php on line 24" > > > The code I've written is as follows: > > ================================================================== > =========== > <?php > // Open a directory. > $somedirectory = opendir( "C:\Xitami\webpages\php\myadmin" ); > > // Now get the name of each directory_file. > while( $entryname = readdir( $somedirectory ) ) > { > if( is_link( $entryname ) ) > { > print( "Sorry this isn't a file!\n" ); > } > else > { > chomp( $entryname ); > $incoming = fopen( > "C:\Xitami\webpages\php\myadmin\$entryname", "r" ) or die( "Can't > open C:\Xitami\webpages\php\myadmin\$entryname" ); > > $filedata = fread( $incoming, filesize( $entryname ) ); > > print( "$filedata" ); > } > > // Close the directory. > closedir( $somedirectory ); > ?> > ================================================================== > =========== > > Sorry for the length of this post. I'll try and keep them smaller > in the future. > > Thank you all for your help. > > Yrs, > > Michael > WebFlyer Interactive Team > ---------- > 2428 Hall Ave. > Grand Junction, CO. 81501 > 970.242.1163 Preferred > 970.263.4201 Alternative