Some PHP help required in here.

[willsradio]

Just wanna say thanks for reading this post. I was wondering if it there was a way to create a php program that would read all the files in a directory on my webspace and then give me link to each song outputted on a TXT file then out put again on an HTML file. I don't know if I am being clear but i mean like this:

 

You put Song.mp3 into directory /music/ on your web host. Well I want a PHP page that will read that directory and that will give each song an ID number, from first to last, and then give the link kinda like this:

 

ID Link

 

1 ...../music/Song.mp3

 

If any one knows a link to where I could read how to do this or something similar, I have very basic knowledge in PHP but I learn fast. Thanks in advance for any help.

[facugaich]

Here's something I managed to do from another script I had done before. It doesn't include the txt because I did it in a hurry. Also, it works only with 3 letter extensions, although that can be fixed. Hope it helps.

 

 

<?php/*	Files' Vars  */$id = 0;$dir = "music";$file_types = array(".mp3", ".ogg", ".wav");$song_files = array();$txtfile = "songs.txt";/*	Puts all the names of the files from $dir in $files	 THIS ONLY WORKS ON PHP 5, YOU'VE GOT TO USE OTHER FUNCTIONS IN LOWER VERSIONS, CHECK PHP'S MANUAL*/$files = scandir($dir);/*Reset the pointer of the array*/reset($files);/*Create the txt file. If it exsists, i will be overwritten. Check PHP manual for other modes that are best suited for what you want to do*/$txthandle = fopen($txtfile, "w");/*Ordered list HTML tag*/echo "<ol>\n";foreach ($files as $file) { foreach ($file_types as $type) { 	 	/* Checks the last 4 letters of the file name to see if it matches with one from the file _types array*/ 	if (substr($file, -4) == $type) {  	   /*This var is intended to be used with the txt output*/   $id = $id + 1;      /*Echo List item tag with name of the song*/   echo "<li><a href=\"" . $dir . "/" . $file . "\">" . $dir . "/" . $file . "</a></li>\n";      /*Write to the txt file. The line break is for windows. For Unix is only "\n" and for Mac only "\r"*/   fwrite($txthandle, $id . ". " . $dir . "/" . $file . "\r\n");    	} }}fclose($txthandle);echo "</ol>\n";?>

 

Edited June 6, 2006 by facugaich

[willsradio]

Huge thanks facugaich for the help, I saw you working away on the topic, so thanks again huge respect you for putting the effort forth.