List a Directory's Contents Using PHP

I'm fairly new to php, will this recursively list all the directories and files within a given location?

Recursive loops are quite difficult to manage in my experience, I had to use an array which I had to re-reserve memory for every time it ran the code.

thiere's also a simpler way then the above codes and wise person showed me while I was having problems listing images dynamicaly from a folder to be included in a javascript slideshow.

the code below can be modifed for what ever files types your needs are

$imgs = glob('images/*.{gif,jpg,jpe,jpeg,png}', GLOB_BRACE);

foreach($imgs as $key =" $val)

$imgs[$key] = '<img src="'.$val.'" title="'.$key.'">';

print $imgs;

Hello All,

My code is very similar to the original poster. A minor differences on logic and with the commands use, plus I only list *.pdf files but I think it doesn't matter. What bothers me is, the code is being ran on WinXP Pro and on Ubuntu Server. On XP, files are listed alphabetically in order (which is perfect) but on Ubuntu, files are listed random. And I dont know why, Am I missing something on PHP or do I need to configure ubuntu? puzzles me.

I issued a command "dir" and "ls -l or ls -al" on ubuntu prompt and found that both command list it alphabetically. --> confuses me more

Thinking a work around... I can modify PHP to save it to array then sort it before displaying, but not willing to that (yet) if I only miss something very minor. Plus my ubuntu sever has lot more than files than my XP which I believe will be running slower if I do that.

I'm no PHP expert nor linux and needed someone who can point me to right direction.  I just dont know where to start. Any comments by Linux experts??? or comments by PHP experts.

if it matters. i use UBUNTU 8.04 and just updated to PHP 5.2.4 (i guess)

Thank you in advance.

TD

For your reference, heres the PHP portion

<? $path = "/var/www/datasheets/"; //Only difference with the XP version

$itemsNo = 0;

$DirHandler = opendir($path) or die("Unauthorize Access");

print("<td width =\"100%\"><div align=\"center\">");

print("<table border=1 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0 class=whitelinks>");

print("<tr bgcolor=\"FF0F0F\" ><th>Item No.</th><th>File</th><th>Filesize</th></tr>");

while ($file = readdir($DirHandler)) {

if  (($file !="index.php") && (substr("$file", 0, 1) != ".")) {

$itemNo++;

$ModelNo = substr("$file",0,strlen($file) - 4);

print("<tr><td align=\"center\">$itemNo</td>");;

print("<td><b><a href=\"$file\">$ModelNo</a></b></td>");

print("<td>");

$dispsize = filesize($file);

$UnitSize = " Bytes";

if ($dispSize >= 1000000) {

$dispsize = $dispsize/1000000;

$UnitSize = " MB";

}

if ($dispSize >= 1000) {

$dispsize = $dispsize/1000;

$UnitSize = " KB";

}

print($dispSize));

print($UnitSize);

print("</td></TR>");

}

print("</div></td>");

}

closedir($DirHandler);

?>

I temporary drop the index.php here --> www.johnlauder.com/projects  (this is running under WinXP, the ubuntu is plainly internal)

thanks again.

jL aka TD

this is great, thanks alot!

just started using tinygrab, which uploads my screenshots (to a sub domain-folder). would be awsome if i could use http://tiny.trstd.se like a screenshot-blog ^^

should have learned php when the web was young, but i didn't.

can someone plix help me write a script that echoes "<img src=$file><br>"; in the order of creation-date and only if the file is a png?