Linking to all files in a directory

[Phenomena]

Ok so what I'm trying to do is set up a directory that will contain a bunch of different web pages and have any web page in that one directory linked on the nav.php  automatically. Lets say I have 3 files in my stuff/ directory, named file1.php, file2.php and file3.php.

 

In the nav.php I want a script that will generate this html for every page

 

<a href="/stuff/$file">$name</a>

 

where $file is the file name in the directory, and $name is a variable defined within the file its self.

[GingerRobot]

Well, generating a list of all the files in the directory is reasonably straight forward. Take a look at the examples on the php website for readdir()

 

You could then use the fread() function to get the contents of each file and find your name.

[Phenomena]

thanks so much i got it working the only problem is that it also creates a link to the directory itself and to the sites homepage.

[GingerRobot]

You'll need to put in a little validation. Use something like this in your while loop:

 

<?php
if($file != '.' && $file != '..'){
        echo $file;
}
?>