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Combo Boxes...

The following code works fine, BUT for the combo box (<select>), I want wateva is the variable $filename to be put first in the combo box and all the other files listed afterwards.... at the moment, it just does it in alphabeticall order...

$dir = opendir('/newusers/bja/');

echo '<select onClick="location.href=\'index.php?filename=\'+this.options[this.selectedIndex].text;">'."\n";

while ($file = readdir($dir))
{
if ((($file != '.')&&($file != '..')&&(filetype($file)=='file')))
{
echo '<option>'.$file."</option>\n";
}
}

echo "</select>\n";

closedir($dir)

Thankyou :)

lozloz

hi,

<?

$dir = opendir('/newusers/bja/');

echo '<select onClick="location.href=\'index.php?filename=\'+this.options[this.selectedIndex].text;">'."\n";
if($_GET["filename"]) {
echo "<option>$filename</option>\n";
}
while ($file = readdir($dir)) {
if ((($file != '.')&&($file != '..')&&(filetype($file)=='file'))) {
if($file != $_GET["filename"]) {
echo "<option>$file</option>\n";
}
}
}
echo "</select>\n";

closedir($dir);

?>

i think this is what you want

loz

ChrisAnnable

ASKER

Exactly want i want :)

Only thing is, can i make it so, it won't put the file if itselft?

Thanks

lozloz

how do you mean exactly? do you mean not put the file in the combo box at all? if so you want to remove the following lines:

if($_GET["filename"]) {
echo "<option>$filename</option>\n";
}

loz

ChrisAnnable

ASKER

No, i mean the file that is using the script...

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ChrisAnnable

ASKER

I just relised that, the code u have doesn't actually check the url of the file its self (eg. $page = index.php), i need it to check the entire URL to that file and if it is, don't display it :)

Thankyou

lozloz

that's what this part does:

$thispage = explode("/", $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]);
$countpage = count($thispage) - 1;
$page = $thispage[$countpage];

$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] holds the name of path information of the page e.g /admin/index.php. explode splits this string by "/" into an array, and after counting the number of elements in the array, $page stores the last element which should be the filename. the line if($file != $page) { checks that the file being put in the select box is not the same as the current page. that's the theory at least, i assume you posted because it's not working so i'll test it now and try and fix it

loz

lozloz

well it seems to work with me in its present form

loz

ChrisAnnable

ASKER

if i put:

http://website.com?filename=index.php

in the url, it works...

BUT, if you put http://website.com?filename=/newusers/bja/index.php

it doesn't detect it as the same file!?

How can i fix this...

Thankyou

lozloz

sorry i was using the filename itself rather than the variable filename..

change:

$thispage = explode("/", $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]);

to:

$thispage = explode("/", $_GET["filename"]);

loz

ChrisAnnable

ASKER

I think you were a bit confused, but i figured it out anyway :P

if($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]."/".$file != $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"].$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"])

Thankyou for your help, i'm accepting ur response :)

BJA