Re: Newbie qustion concening directories and files.

Try using \\ (double-backslash) for directory names, since the backslash is the escape character. Something like: $somedirectory = opendir( "C:\\Xitami\\webpages\\php\\myadmin" ); Gonzalo. > 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