[dodotopia]

What PHP command would I invoke to scan a directory?

I'm trying to send a video clip from my phone to my webserver, have some php recognize a new file so it can build a new page (i.e. for today's videos) and display it automatically.

Any insight on how I might do that?

I can code the PHP but just need some direction...anybody have experience on sending picture/videos to an email address and have it auto-save the attachment to a directory?

Thanks...

[Patiek]

You need to look into email piping and using PHP stdin, etc. I am sure looking for "email piping php" in google will turn up some results. Essentially you will be piping email that comes in on an email address, name@example.com, to a PHP script that accepts input via stdin (again, just search google... I am sure there are many examples available). Thus, you will need to both configure the email address to pipe to the PHP script and create the PHP script that will be able to handle the email data. Enabling email piping can vary, so just ask your host for help in that matter.

As for checking directory contents:

PHP Code:

$handle = opendir("folder/");

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

{

    echo $file . "\n";

}

closedir($handle); 

Take a look at readdir() function.

[ThaLyric]

I've created s script for something like that :

PHP Code:

<?php

    /*

        Fransjo Leihitu

        http://www.leihitu.nl

        

        USAGE:

        

        

        // LIST ALL

        if($myDirList=get_dirlist("/mypath/"))

        {

            print "<pre>";

            print_r($myDirList);

            print "</pre>";

        }

        

        // LIST ONLY GIF AND JPG

        $ext=array();

        $ext[]="gif";

        $ext[]="jpg";

        

        if($myDirList1=get_dirlist("/mypath/",$ext))

        {

            print "<pre>";

            print_r($myDirList1);

            print "</pre>";

        }        

    */





    function getFileExtension($filename="")

    {

        if(isSet($filename))

        {

            $filename=trim(strip_tags(stripslashes($filename)));

            if($filename!="")

            {

                $dummyArray=split("[/.]",$filename);

                $count=count($dummyArray);

                if($count>0)

                {

                    return strtolower($dummyArray[$count-1]);

                }

            }

        }

        

        return false;

    }

    

    function get_dirlist($dir,$extension=null)

    {

        $dirlist=array();



        if(is_dir($dir))

        {

            if (opendir($dir))

            {

                // open the dir

                $dh=opendir($dir);

                

                // get all the files in the dir

                while ($filename=readdir($dh))

                {

                    // is the item NOT a dir

                    if (!is_dir($filename))

                    {

                        // look for an extension?

                        if($extension!=null)

                        {

                            // get the file extension

                            $fileExtension=trim(getFileExtension($filename));

                            

                            // check it he file extension is in the array

                            if(in_array($fileExtension, $extension)

                            {

                                // add the filename to the list

                                $dirlist[]=$filename;

                            }                            

                        } else {

                            // just add the filename to the list

                            $dirlist[]=$filename;

                        }

                    }

                }

                closedir($dh);

                

                // sort the list by name

                asort($dirlist);

                

                //return the list

                return $dirlist;                

            }

        }

        

        // hmm something wrong happend, return false

        return false;

    }



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