[witakr]

How do i obtain and store a list of the txt files stored in a certain directory?

I need to be able to get the name of the files so i can open the file and echo the contents for each txt file


thanks in advance for any advice

j

[Nico]

PHP Code:

$files = glob('path/to/files/*.txt');

foreach ($files AS $file)
{
    // Do whatever with $file
} 

[witakr]

Is the asterisk a wildcard? Or do i need to specify a file name? I ned to get all files and store all files and echo the contents of every file

[Nico]

It's a wildcard. It will grab all files in the given directory with a .txt extension.

And in the loop you can do:

PHP Code:

echo file_get_contents($file); 

This would echo the content of each .txt file.

[witakr]

this is my variation and its not echoing anything

PHP Code:

<?php

$files = glob('$filesdir*.txt');

foreach ($files AS $file)
{
   echo $file;
   $filecon = file_get_contents($file);
   echo $filecon;
}

?>

I tried

PHP Code:

echo file_get_contents($file); 

then I changed it to

PHP Code:

   $filecon = file_get_contents($file);
   echo $filecon; 

Because it didnt work the 1st time so i tried putting it in a var but i figure thats not the problem...lol

Any idea why it wont work?.. the files are listed in ../scorekeeper/playerfiles

[Nico]

PHP Code:

$files = glob('$filesdir*.txt'); 

Use double quotes instead of single quotes, because variables won't be parsed between single quotes. Besides that, I don't see where $filesdir is set in your code.

[witakr]

sorry,.. i left that off.. it actually set a little higher in the page in a different php set

Thanks for your help, im going to try this now

EDIT: Alrighty, tested and it works now, thanks for your help. I will sure be back if i get confused again(see sig...lol)