Point to a directory

[williamrouse]

I want to perform an operation on all files in a given directory. I want the user to choose the directory with some GUI interface.

Using HTML I could use the INPUT as I found in this example below at TIZAG. As anyone found a method just to choose a directory?

Thanks!

WBR

 

http://www.tizag.com/phpT/fileupload.php

Choose a file to upload: 

[falkencreative]

Assuming I am understanding you correctly... could you use a instead?

 

You could use readdir() (http://us3.php.net/readdir) to grab the names of all of the files/folders in the directory, and then use is_dir() (http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.is-dir.php) to check if the name represents a folder. If so, add it to an array, and then echo out that array in the form of a , where each option in the select is a value from the array.

 

So, roughly, you would need to:

 

-- open the directory with opendir ()

-- read in all of the file names with readdir()

-- check through each file name, and if it represents a folder (using is_dir()) add it to an array

-- close the directory with closedir()

-- loop through the array, echoing out an option for each item in the array

 

Make sense?

[williamrouse]

Yes!

[jlhaslip]

Be sure to exclude the (.) and (..) directories... else you will be handling the current and parent directories.