ereg issue

Hi Everyone!

Getting this error code with my php script that I am using.

Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated

Was working fine and now it is not. 

<?php

chdir(dirname(__FILE__));
$dir = "/sync/www/html/ohx/training";
$numberOfFiles = 6;
$pattern = '\.(pdf|xlsx|xls|doc|docx)$';

$newstamp = 0;
$newname = "";
$dc = opendir($dir);
unset($fils);
while ($fn = readdir($dc)) {
    # Eliminate current directory, parent directory
    if (ereg('^\.{1,2}$',$fn)) continue;
    # Eliminate other pages not in pattern
    if (! ereg($pattern,$fn)) continue;
    //echo "<a href='$fn'>$fn</a><br>\n";
    $timedat = filemtime("$dir/$fn");
    //$fils["a" . $timedat . "$fn"] = $fn;//keep file name and time so if 2 files have same time they dont get lost
    $fils[$fn] = $timedat;//keep file name and time so if 2 files have same time they dont get lost
    /*if ($timedat > $newstamp) {
            $newstamp = $timedat;
            $newname = $fn;
            }
            */


}

ksort ($fils, SORT_NUMERIC);
//for($i = 0; $i < $numberOfFiles ; $i++)
$fils2 = array_keys($fils);
$i = 0;
foreach($fils2 as $s){
    $i++;
echo "<a href=training/$s>$s</a><br>\n";
    //echo "$i " . $s . "<br>\n";
    if($i == $numberOfFiles )break;

}




?>

http://php.net/ereg

ereg has been depreciated, you will need to convert your ereg items to preg_match

<?php

chdir(dirname(__FILE__));
$dir = "/sync/www/html/ohx/training";
$numberOfFiles = 6;
$pattern = '#\.(pdf|xlsx|xls|doc|docx)$#';

$newstamp = 0;
$newname = "";
$dc = opendir($dir);
unset($fils);
while ($fn = readdir($dc)) {
    # Eliminate current directory, parent directory
    if (preg_match('#^\.{1,2}$#',$fn)) continue;
    # Eliminate other pages not in pattern
    if (! preg_match($pattern,$fn)) continue;

Should work, I just added delimiters to the patterns, which is all it would need (the # are the delimiters).

The first one is better served as a simple string comparison, though.

if ($fn == "." || $fn == "..")

Great Thanks!

Hmm, I wouldn't use regular expression at all. It seems you only want files anyway, right? Are you aware that your regex (if it did work) would allow folders if they had names that ended in '.pdf' for example? I'd use glob() along with is_file() and check the extension against an allowed array.

[removed some lines for brevity]

$dir = "/sync/www/html/ohx/training";
$allowedTypes = array('pdf', 'xlsx', 'xls', 'doc', 'docx');

foreach(glob($dir.'/*') as $filePath)
{
    # Eliminate directories
    if(!is_file($filePath)) { continue; }

    # Eliminate disallowed filed
    $fileInfo = pathinfo($filePath);
    if(!in_array($fileInfo['extension'], $allowedTypes)) { continue; }

It seems you only want files anyway, right?

Shows how much I really pay attention