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Looping through files in a folder

Hello

Would someone tell me an easy way to loop through files in a folder. Ideally I would like to only see files of one kind (.pdf) so that I could place a link to them on a web page.

I would like to dynamically create the following HTML

FILES IN FOLDER "TEST"
<a href=test/1.pdf" 1 </a>
<a href=test/2.pdf" 2 </a>
<a href=test/3.pdf" 3 </a>

Thanks

snoyes_jw

http://www.php.net/dir

See the user comments for some example code.

ldbkutty

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.readdir.php

Assuming you are able to read all files in the loop with $file :

$fileext = substr($strrchr($file, "."), 1);
if(strtolower($fileext) == "pdf")){
echo "<a href='folder_name/$file'>" . substr($file, 0, strlen($file)-strlen($fileext)-1) . "</a>";
}

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jculkincys

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Beauty ldbkutty

just one extra ")" in if(strtolower($fileext) == "pdf")){

ldbkutty

:=)

Fahdmurtaza

Guided by the ee newsletter here. What would be the asp alternative?
Regards,
Fahd Murtaza

ldbkutty

Hmm...I suggest to post in the ASP section.

antido

<?php

if ($handle = opendir('/path/')) {

while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {

$file = pathinfo('file');
$ext = strtolower($file_parts['extension']);

if($ext == "pdf")
echo "$file\n";

}

closedir($handle);
}
?>