Using PHP to read file names in a directory

[calrockx]

Cool forum, I'm sure I'll be checking this one often, being the PHP "newb" I am, ha. 

 

Anyway, I'm working on a page now and I'm using PHP to read the file names in a directory and display those images on a page.

 

	<?php
            $handle = opendir ('./sections/'.$_GET[section].'/_categories/');
            while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
                if($file != "." && $file != ".." && $file != basename(__FILE__)) {
                    echo '<li><img src="'.$file.'"/></li>';}}
        ?>

 

That script is working just fine now as is - it outputs the file name with extension ("image1.jpg" for example).

I'd like to modify to output the file name without the period and file type attached (just "image1"). 

 

Any ideas?

[Caesar]

<?php

$nuname = preg_replace('/\.[aA-zZ]+/','',$file);

?>

 

Additionally, you can use strrpos() to find the last instance of the "." in the extension, if you anticipate using periods in image names.

[calrockx]

Thanks a lot, Caesar

that sure did the trick