fread() and directory crawling

[dennismonsewicz]

Is there anyway to have fread(), fopen(), or any other f functions to crawl a directory and grab the files and strip the name of the files and size of the files?

[dennismonsewicz]

if not using fread or any f functions then could this be achieved by doing anything else? BUMP

[dennismonsewicz]

bump

[lordfrikk]

If you want to iterate through the directory's files, then you can do it this way:

 

<?php

$dir = dir(".");
while ( $file = $dir->read() )
{
	// here goes the file handling code
}

?>

[dennismonsewicz]

$dir = dir(".") -> is this where I put the path to my directory? and what kind of file handling code would i use?

[lordfrikk]

Yes, that's where the directory path goes.

 

Well you said something about stripping filenames and getting file sizes, so that's what I meant by "file handling".

[dennismonsewicz]

Gotcha. I found a tutorial online and I am going to use what you suggested. I also need to dump the filenames into a Database. I am basically creating a stock photo site but instead of having to upload each individual file i am trying to just dump all of the photos in respected DIRs and have a PHP file do the dirty work