Include Folder Contents

[PCHomepage]

On a local Intranet site, I would like to be able to include all the individual files in a folder into another script without having to name each and every one in its own "include" line. In other words, the files will each contain a function and I want any that are there in the folder to be included automatically.

Although security is not a major issue, what folder permissions would be best?

Unfortunately I am a bit rusty on my PHP! Can anyone help get me started? Thanks.

Don

 

[Borvik]

First I should point out that security is always an issue unless it's on it's own little intranet and you are the only user.

Now that that's out of the way.

Take a look at

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.readdir.php.

The examples show you how to read all the files in a directory - which CAN be used to include them.

A better way would be to use Object-Oriented Programming and stick the functions in classes. Then Autoload the classes as necessary using this method:

http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.autoload.php.

There are still security issues either way though the OOP autoload method is marginally better.

 

[PCHomepage]

Thanks! That is exactly what I needed to know and I appreciate the very fast answer. Probably the audoloading of classes is a better choice although the reading of files in a directory might have some uses for my "experiment" too.