Sean Feeney
Architect of the digital age

List Contents of a Directory

21 November 2006

// open this directory
$myDirectory = opendir(“.”);

// get each entry
while($entryName = readdir($myDirectory)) {
$dirArray[] = $entryName;
}

// close directory
closedir($myDirectory);

// count elements in array
$indexCount = count($dirArray);
Print (“$indexCount files
n”);

// sort ‘em
sort($dirArray);

// print ‘em
print(“<TABLE border=1 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0 class=whitelinks>n”);
print(“<TR><TH>Filename</TH><th>Filetype</th><th>Filesize</th></TR>n”);
// loop through the array of files and print them all
for($index=0; $index < $indexCount; $index++) {
if (substr(“$dirArray[$index]”, 0, 1) != “.”){ // don’t list hidden files
print(“<TR><TD>$dirArray[$index]</td>”);
print(“<td>”);
print(filetype($dirArray[$index]));
print(“</td>”);
print(“<td>”);
print(filesize($dirArray[$index]));
print(“</td>”);
print(“</TR>n”);
}
}
print(“</TABLE>n”);