include() options?

[Kolusion]

I am new to PHP and wasting no time have jumped into creating my own database system. Its actually a psuedo-database, but who cares it works. I've done something some-what similar in Python but with a static single file database.

 

What I have is directories as like:

./1/index.listing

./2/index.listing

./3/index.listing

 

The numbers are a product... product 1, product 2, you know..

What I want to do is on the product category page, using:

include('./*/index.listing');

.. where * would mean for PHP to scan all relative directories and include 'index.listing', which will result in a list being built for the product category, showing all the available products.

There is probably some way to do this in MySQL, but I am already familiur with this style of database, so why waste more Saturday nights learning something I don't have to when I could be out getting drunk and partying with girls 10 years younger than me. LuLz

[trq]

You could use glob to build an array of files to include then loop through that array including them.

 

There is probably some way to do this in MySQL, but I am already familiur with this style of database, so why waste more Saturday nights learning something I don't have to when I could be out getting drunk and partying with girls 10 years younger than me

 

Because in the end, it's a better design that is more efficient and easier to implement.

[Kolusion]

A very good suggestion! That sound like a part of the engine I am looking for, but how would I specify which directory to search, and to specify the search to be reclusive, then to include all of those files? Can it be done?

 

I'll tried this, but it failed:

 

foreach (glob("*.lodb") as $filename {
                                                include($filename);}