PHP :: Dropdown List Of Files In Folder

need a list of all files (i have like 5k or so) in a folder, I need to add there names to a table

I am doing this so i can compare two tables

table 1. comments added to uploaded pics -finished pictures-
table 2. no comments added yet to uploaded pics (so they can be commented on GET IT?) -unfinished pictures-

All the pictures are in a single folder for the time being i'm going to be making a form based on the pictures that are on table 2 so that they can have comments and titles and file name added to table 1 (to be done still) but i need to know all the file names for the folder in question, i guess i could do it via cmd line ls or something like that, i'll get back to you.

How do you display a list of files in a folder and then delete one by clicking on it?

I need to populate a list box and/or a dropdown list on a form. I have all
the bits and pieces together, all bar the code which takes the result of a
query and creates a list box.

Does anyone know how I can write a script that:

- reads in all the files in a particular directory
- displays the file names in a html list and makes a link of them:
<ul>
<li><a href="filelocation1">filename 1</li>
<li><a href="filelocation2">filename 1</li>
<li><a href="filelocation3">filename 1</li>
</ul>

etc.?

So basically it creates a list of links with the contents in that directory,
so you can download them from there.

I have a Dropdown list with Select with 1, 2, 3, 4, after select on of them it bust to refresh the page to what you select but it don't do it. PHP Code:

i am trying to get two dropdown lists working on a page. How do i go about this. For example, I have 1 table which holds countries and cities. When a user selects a country in the first dropdown list, i'd like the second dropdownlist populate with a list of cities etc. from my database.

I am wanting to know how to populate the <SELECT> dropdown menu with all existing values from the DB and also have the value associated with that id selected. This is an updating area of my admin. Any ideas? Here's the code so far. At the moment it only retrieves the value assigned to that id. PHP Code:

I've got a dropdown list that is acting as a filter on a table, so the user can select a value and the page is reloaded only showing the matching values from the database.

Now when the page reloads the dropdown was set to 'all' as it was first in the list, even if I'd selected a different value, this was confusing for users, so I added an initial <option> field which pulled the correct value from $_GET (code below) - however this is a little odd as it means the value appears twice!

Does anyone have a genius solution to this? I've seen a <select selected="yes"> sort of thing around, but I don't know how I can tell the php to add this value dynamically?

<select size='1' name='occupation'>
<option>".$_GET['occupation']."</option>
<option value='All'>All</option>
<option value='Student'>Students</a></option>
<option value='Professional'>Professional</option>
<option value='Hobbyist'>Hobbyists</option>
</select>

Is it possible to write codings PHP or Javascript.. GUI representation
of File handling (ie. Drag files from one folder to another folder (copy)
like our windows).. pls give me some reference codings like this..

An events-registration page with a form containing a dropdown list for upcoming events, the events will be pulled from a table which is updated by...?

what i've gathered so far is that this can be done with PHP. I am a little unclear on the concept of how this is done. How does the updated information get input into the table?

1) can this be done (updating database) through a web interface by the client, or is it something i would have to do locally and then upload. If done by the client, can he delete/edit existing information--assuming he is not familiar with code.

2) what other things aside from html(good), sql(so-so), and php(newb) will i have to know?

i've seen a lot of good tutorials here and will have access to the necessary software. I just want to know if there is anything else i should know before i dive in head first without testing the PHP water, which i assume is frigid.

Nooby question but when I try and get this to work (it should identify which
rows in the database have GK, MID, DEF, FWD against them and then put
SELECTED into the option value to give a default of what the entry is
currently) it just adds SELECTED to all the results as if $row["Position"]
is returning true against all four conditions? What am I doing wrong? CODE:..

I would like to create a conditional cascade form. based on the selection, it can display or not display an input form for the user to enter an string of text. then at the bottom of the page (or when a user submit) connect all the sections including the input field all together (it's like a story maker?)

l am building a new site using PHP which has a lot of pages pulling from an Access Database. I would like to have a dropdown list that pulls exhibitions from the database and then when the user selects one it shows the rest of the details from DB just below the dropdown list, hope that makes sense. Code:

Im working on a script that has to be change so a user can choose from a dropdown menu instead of a list that now is displayed.
Here is the part that is insert on the index page.

I was working on a simple converter when I realized that by not setting the id param of the option tag, it wasn't going to send the value of the dropdown box to my php script. I had this to start with: Code:

I'm looing for a simple PHP file list program, that will show all the
files in a folder, but show them in batchs of 10 - 15..

I am developing a PHP/MySQL project and as part of my initial setup and configuration scripts, the users can select a skin for the application, and a variable value ($skin) is updated to set the current skin, this works ok on it's own, but currently the user must manually type the skin name in a free-text box.

Ideally this needs to be a drop-down option box, and I would like this to be populated by listing the sub-folders within the '/skins' folder, so that it's always up to date. The folder structure looks like this:

/skins
/skins/skin1
/skins/skin2
/skins/skin3

How can I use PHP to generate a list of the current sub-directories in 'skins' and populate the drop-down list?

I have a server built in window + apche. I am trying to make a photo album, but I don't know what is the code for detecting the number of files in a server folder and the files' name~.

How to get the files names from the folder using PHP .. is there any
specific command. If yes let me know that..

i have a form which has a select button when user clicks it a popup opens which shows all images in abc folder

when user clicks on any image the window closes and the name of that image is entered in the text box in parent form, now its working fine uptill here but if user refresh the popup window then it disconnects from parent window so my code that fills the textbox in the parent form and closes the popup window does not work anymore im using it like parent.document.form.texthox.value=abc since popup window is refreshed it does not work as child any more and this code does not work.

I am trying to write a function to copy an existing folder and folder
structure but am already stuck.

What I want to do is the following:

Copy a default folder (default_folder) and all sub folders within it (down
to a possible 4 levels)
eg default folder
->subfolder1
->subfolder2
->sub subfolder1
->sub sub folder 2

I have a form where the user can enter the name of the new folder and an
option to confirm if they want to copy the files also located within the
default folder.
If the checkbox is not checked then copy just the folder structure only

Can this be acheived in one function or will it be based on 2 where a set of
empty folders are created and where the folders and files are copied over

Not sure where to put this question? I am building a book archives database with a front-end for some librarians. They want to upload book cover images onto the server (probably Win-NT). There are approximately 80000 records that will have the book cover images stored in a PDF document for each. Can I upload every PDF to the same folder? Is there some kind of limit for a folder?

I have a folder with many pictures in it.
All have the name like: HHMMDDMMYYYY.jpg

H-hour
M-minute
D-day
M-month
Y-year

Now I want to delete all pictures which are older than now()-7days.
How Can I do it? In SQL would be no prob but with file deleting is problem.

I have a php file (1.php) that needs to open another php file (2.php) and parse it's output. 2.php gets it's data from an xml file and formats it in a pretty screen style. So what I need is something like: $fp = fopen ("2.php?file=file.xml","r"); but that wont work because there is no file called ƈ.php?file=file.xml' so how's it done?

While I know putting a app into a folder was chiseled out of fine
scottish granite and carried upto the top of ben nevis by php newbies
many years ago - I dont think a folder is the best way to do it .

The fact a script is in a folder means certain instant problems if you
want to do certain things with .

Assuming a script doesnt have index.php and all the script files have a
filename prefix like phpgb_ then theres no chance of them clashing with
anything else and theres no real reason to continue using a folder for
the main script files .

While the script will have a app folder for various things - does it
make any sense not to use the root because of a single solitary file
called index.php .

phpgb_index.php is what I use and the method hasnt brought up a single
problem of any shape or description .

Gas lighting was once what everybody thought was the best way of doing
it until that darn new fangled electricity came along .

I have to store over a million files, 10 - 15 kb each, in one folder.
The files are created by my php script, sometimes the old files are
deleted and new ones are written.
So, basically on every connection my script reads/deletes/ writes files
from/to that folder.
Right now i have only around 300 000 files in that folder, and it feels
like its getting slower for that script to work. It does work at the
moment, but i am not sure what will happen when there is over a million
files there...
Are there any limits of files that can be stored in a folder?
Would it be better for me to use mysql? I am not sure how mysql will
cope with millions of writes/reads

Example would be:

prev 12345 next

but doing this with just files and not DB records?

I'm trying to put my files in a web dirctory. All kind of files, so that in the future when I need something I just go there and get them. My goal is that when I type "www.domain.com/myVitualDirectory" I would get my list of files and folders and files and I would even be able to navigate into the folders, then I would right click and Save Target As and get my file.

I want to make a folder filled with blog posts by date. Each file will be like 20071113.php and 20071031.php basically the date they were written 2007, 10 for october, and 31 for the day. But each will be notated like that so that the number is always increasing.

How would I make a php include function as to take the last ten highest numbers and add it to a page? (Basically the last ten posts by date) and How would I include more than one post per date?

I'm newbie on Php. I cannot write codes but only modify.
I need a code doing this:
I'll put text files in a folder like file1.txt,file2.txt ...
I want to search this files, list most recent 10 and if files

call, script will put into the site design with <pre> tags.

I want to copy entire content(have both files and folders)from One folder to destination folder..

Im very new to php and need a bit of help. basically what I have is a folder with a number of text files inside. What i need to do is open every text file in that folder and then process the information inside each text file.

Im not really sure but I would assume I open the directory and place the name of each text file into an array and then loop through the array and process the contents of the text file.

#open directory

#foreach text file in the directory
#store file name into an array

#loop through array
#process code

I have excel sheets generated daily and weekly in this format for filenames..for daily sheets the filename is Jan-10-2002 (mmm-dd-yyyy) and weekly Week-39-2002. I have a script that uploads to a constant folder all the excel sheets.

Is there a script that can display the daily scripts in form of a calender. I.E a user can choose to view or download the sheet by choosing the date? Also another for displaying weekly excel sheets in a weekly format.

How can i return the number of files in a folder?

I'm trying to find all the include files in a folder is there a way to some how read a folder and then return an array with all the file names as the array keys or associative keys? I only want to return files that are .html or .php not all files

I am trying to create a script that will parse the folder it's containing php page is in for html files. Create a drop down list of links to the html files.
Anyone know how I might do this?

I have plenty of examples of dynamic dropdown choices but none of hardcoded dropdown choices. The ultimate goal is to have a job with various tasks and to track the status of those tasks for a given job. I've used one of the tutorials here to begin the process. Below is the code I have to add work on a given task. Perhaps I actually need to "Update" a job as opposed to "add".

But the problem of the moment is I can't seem to hardcode one set of my options. This is the code I have: PHP Code:

I use a cache system that requires creation of files in a folder .

Now , what i need to know is how can i delete files created say 3 days ago.

So that the cache remains fresh.

The directory contains around 20,000 files , about 10,000 are generated each day (if they dont exist)

So getting info about the each file after using opendir will cause the server to slow down.

I have a small Linux webserver, and want to find a (php) script
that lets my users download files located outside of the public_html
folder.

Currently, I have various php files in my "public" folder on my webserver. I also have "include" php files in a designated folder w/in my "public" folder (i used include("file")

Example: path files

public folder => index.php, products.php, aboutus.php, etc
public folder/include folder => includefile1.php, includefile2.php, etc

what CHMOD settings should i set... so that users cannot directly open my "include" files? and where do i set them? on the "include" folder? on the individual "include" files?

I am about to write an application that will display all pdf files in a
folder and display them by file name in order of date.

Is there an easy way of doing this? I was thinking about somehow adding
filename and date created in an array, sorting by date and then
printing onto an html page with a link to that file. How would I do
this though? Is this the simplest method or is there a better way of
doin this?

Im trying to design a webpage form in php that allows uploading of three mp3 files to a folder on my server. The webpage should convert the name of each mp3 file uploaded to 1.mp3 , 2.mp3 and 3.mp3 and whenever a new song is uploaded it should replace whatevers in the folder on the server, im totally stuck as where to begin.

Im working on a project with PHP that allows users to upload pictures to my server and then reference them. After going through some uploading tutorials I have the uploading part working Except! I cant upload folders to my remote root folder. I need to allow the users to upload somewhere inside the root folder so they can reference the pictures in code after.

Just to clarify the uploading works perfectly if I put the uploads folder anywhere on my computer except the sites remote root folder (or anywhere inside the root folder)
I also beleive I am giving the folder all of the proper permissions because I am giving the uploads folder in my root directory (the one that doesnt work) the same permissions as the one outside the root (the one that works) Code:

i have created one database in mysql. first i have created all tables
are of innodb type then i converted all tables to myisam type. i know
that for each myisam type table three files are created tablename.frm
tablename.myi and tablename.myd.

i have created database before one month. today i checked database and
i show somefiles exist in database folder named
(1)#sql-644_27.frm
(2)#sql-644_1.frm
(3)#sql-638_1.MYI
(4)#sql-638_1.MYD
(5)#sql-638_1.frm
(6)#sql-478_5.frm

can anyone tell me what is these files and why is these files?

Are there any functions available in php that will count the amount of files in a folder + its subfolders and return the answer? I'm sure there must be a simple answer for this.

I am working on a news script were my members can post what they are currently working on. I have a dir were all of there images are going to be uploaded, and I need to know if the following is possable to do.

$username = the members name selected from the database
$projname = the projects name selected from the database

What I want to do is select only images with the filename containing the info. The filenames are like this:

TheBlackshinobi_3dmountain_1.jpg
TheBlackshinobi_3dmountain_2.jpg
TheBlackshinobi_3dmountain_3.jpg

I am trying to make a script that list all of the files in a directory and then if the file in the directory is a sub Directory it will list the files in the subdirectory.

If anybody would have a clue how to do this or where to start, please tell.

Also in the end i want it to check file dates and delete them if they are older then 3 days, but i dont have a clue where to start on this.

I've got some code to loop through a directory and it's sub directories and bring back a list of files and folders. What im wanting to do is have this in a state where i can put all info into a database so i can quickly index and then see what files are in what folders. It's all my security camera triggerd avi files. The following code will loop through an give me an array of files and folders Code:

I need to get a list of all files in a particular virtual directory on
a web site, such as -
http://www.myServer.com/FileStore

I tried using the directory functions, but this doesn't work.

if($dirHandle = opendir("http://www.myServer.com/FileStore/"))
{
while(false !== ($file = readdir($dirHandle)))
{
print($file."<br>");
}
}
closedir($handle);
}

Is there a way to do this?