viewing pdf's

[jakebur01]

How could I have php pull pdf's with a certain name?

 

Ex. If their policy number is 68402. And I have "58692.12-23-2007.documentname.pdf" , "68402.11-12-2007.documentname.pdf", etc...

 

It would only pull the 68402.11-12-2007.documentname.pdf. I wanted it to seperate the policy number and date from the .pdf name then only display links to the .pdf's associated with their policy number.

 

Thanks,

 

Jake

[GingerRobot]

The glob function allows you to search for filenames matching a pattern.

[jakebur01]

how could I make it break off the policy number from the file name and search for .pdf's according to that using the function below? It would be the number in front of the first period. (Ex. 485743.documentname.pdf)

 

function browsepdf(){
    $pdffile=glob("printable/*.pdf");
    rsort($pdffile);
    foreach($pdffile as $filename){
        $filename=ltrim($filename, "printable/");
        $filename=rtrim($filename, ".pdf");
        $file=$filename;
        $datetime=strtotime($filename);
        $newdate=strtotime("+3 days",$datetime);
        $filenamedate=date("F d", $datetime);
        $filenamedate.=" - ".date("F d, Y", $newdate);
        echo "<option value='$file'>$filenamedate</option>";
    }
}

[GingerRobot]

So you just want to return files with that policy number at the beginning?

 

<?php
function browsepdf($policy){
    $pdffile=glob("printable/$policy*.pdf");
    rsort($pdffile);
    foreach($pdffile as $filename){
        $filename=ltrim($filename, "printable/");
        $filename=rtrim($filename, ".pdf");
        $file=$filename;
        $datetime=strtotime($filename);
        $newdate=strtotime("+3 days",$datetime);
        $filenamedate=date("F d", $datetime);
        $filenamedate.=" - ".date("F d, Y", $newdate);
        echo "<option value='$file'>$filenamedate</option>";
    }
}
browsepdf(485743);
?>

[jakebur01]

thank you!

[GingerRobot]

No problem - you'd done most of it!