Making a list of folders

[apina]

Hi!

 

I'd like to make a REALLY SIMPLE www gallery index page, that:

- gets a list of subfolders and lists them on the page

- gets a "folderdescription.txt" file from each directory and displays it's contents beneath each folder

- shows a thumbnail for each folder (in each folder: folderthumbnail.jpg)

 

Then, based on that info I quess I could write easily also the gallery code itself.

 

So, I'd need a list of the subfolder names as some vector or something. That's what I don't know how to do...

 

Just help with the PHP part is needed - I can handle the HTML...

[miracle_potential]

Assuming its one directory you want to open with your subdirectories in it. you shoul duse something like this.

 

$dh = opendir($dirpath);
while (false !== ($file = readdir($dh))) {
if (!is_dir("$dirpath/$file")) {
echo "<span class=maintxt>". str_replace("_"," ",$file) ."</span><br />";
echo "<a class=maintxt href=";
echo $dirpath.$file;
echo ">";
echo "Download This file";
echo "</a><br /><br />";
}
}
closedir($dh);

 

Which loops and shows you all the files and all the folders and offers a download, not so sure about the thumbnails though not worked with pics all too much.

[haku]

I'd like to make a REALLY SIMPLE www gallery index page, that:

- gets a list of subfolders and lists them on the page

- gets a "folderdescription.txt" file from each directory and displays it's contents beneath each folder

- shows a thumbnail for each folder (in each folder: folderthumbnail.jpg)

 

YOu basically have to pick - do you want a 'really simple' page, or do you want all that information? Its not the simplest deal to do what you speak of.

[apina]

Thanks for the answer! I'll try that soon.

 

I'm capable of programming complex things. It's just that I don't know the PHP commands & syntax for getting this file info - for example, if I just knew the names of the subdirectories, I can modify that code to make <img > tags of the thumbnails, links to the directories, and so on...

[apina]

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

 

Couldn't that be just "while( $file = readdir($dh) )" ?

[Orio]

Yeah it's the same. Unless you got files/folders called "" or "0" or "false" etc' (without an extension).

 

Orio.

[apina]

Anyway, I think this first answer already answered my question - now I just have to experiment a bit with it

[miracle_potential]

Hehe glad it was of some use I used it in an FTP application I programmed doing a very similar thing (except the thumbnail thing)