Open/read multiple subfolders and read all files in them, problem! (php + domxml

[Donnie Darko]

I'm trying to code a simple CMS of my own based on XML for my senior project. I'm halfway done. I'm currently stuck on this one function where I need to open and read multiple folders, then read all the files in them so I can put them in my domxml_open_file() function like domxml_open_file($file) - I have different folders such as Housing_Stuff, College_Stuff etc. and .xml files named after their IDs in them such as 1.xml, 2.xml. I tried various methods to read multiple folders and stuff but can't get it to work and it is frustrating me to an extreme. Here are the codes:

 

session_start();

function printNow($array){
if(count($array) <= 1){
	for ($i = 0; $i<count($array); $i++){
		$node = $array[$i];
		$value = $node->get_content();
	}
	return $value;
} 

}

function folderlist(){
  $nowDir = './admin/';
  $ignoreDir[] = '.';
  $ignoreDir[] = '..';
  $ignoreDir[] = 'xmldata';
  $ignoreDir[] = 'images';
  $ignoreDir[] = 'backup';
  $ignoreDir[] = 'jscripts';
   if (is_dir($nowDir)){
       if ($dh = opendir($nowDir)){
           while (($folder = readdir($dh)) !== false){
               if (!(array_search($folder,$ignoreDir) > -1)){
                 if (filetype($nowDir . $folder) == "dir"){
                       $dirList[$nowDir . $folder]['name'] = $folder;
                   }
               }
           }
           closedir($dh);
       }
   }
return($dirList);
}

$folders = folderlist();
  foreach ($folders as $folder){
    $folderName = $folder['name'];
	 }

$read = opendir("./admin/$folderName/");

$fileCount = 0;
while ($file = readdir($read) and $fileCount < 5){
if (eregi("^\\.\\.?$", $file)) {
	continue;
}

$open = "./admin/$folderName/".$file;
$xml = domxml_open_file($open);

// Pull the stuff we need and build the links 

$identify = $xml->root();

$id = $identify->get_attribute("id");

$d0cument = $xml->root();
$hl_array = d0cument->get_elements_by_tagname("headline");
$hline = printNow($hl_array);

$d0cument = $xml->root();
$sd_array = $d0cument->get_elements_by_tagname("summ");
$sd = printNow($sd_array);

$d0cument = $xml->root();
$aa_array = $d0cument->get_elements_by_tagname("author");
$aa = printNow($aa_array);

$d0cument = $xml->root();
$ada_array = $d0cument->get_elements_by_tagname("date");
$ada = printNow($ada_array);

$fileCount++;

}

<center><table width="625" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td height="25" background="<?echo$sitetheme;?>/images/orta.gif"><b><h3><? echo $lang['article'];?></b></h3></font>
</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</center>
<?

echo '<div id="div">';
echo '<ul id="sidebarnav_Main">';
echo "<li><a href=article.php?id=".$id.">".$ada." > ".$folderName." > ".$hline."</a></li></ul><div>";

?>

 

The output of this is:

 

> College_Stuff >

 

with the link not having any of the properties I want it to have such as $id etc. And the $folderName function apparently just gets the name of one folder, when there are 2 other folders it should be taking the names of. When I change the $folderName with an actual folder name such as Housing_Stuff for these 2 lines:

 

$read = opendir("./admin/$folderName/");

 

$open = "./admin/$folderName/".$file;

 

The functions work fine and the script pulls the properties of the file but it only pulls 2.xml, and there is another .xml file in that folder named 1-1242743475.xml. I'm totally stuck and in need of help. Hopefully I was able to explain the problem well enough.