Populating a dropdown... 1

[VAMick]

Is it possible to populate a dropdown menu with the file names that are found in a specified folder on the webserver? For instance, in my /images folder, the dropdown would have all the image files listed.

What I'm trying to do is make a page for the user to select a file and then associate keywords with the file, for later searching on.

Possible?

 

[Xaqte]

Just use PHP to get a directory listing and use it in a select list.

You can search the PHP forum here, or take a look at the manual:

http://us2.php.net/dir

Let us know your results!

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[VAMick]

Thanks, just searched over in the php forum and it's def pointing me in the right direction. I'll let you know how it turns out.

 

[VAMick]

I started with these two chunks of code...

<?php
// Note that !== did not exist until 4.0.0-RC2

if ($handle = opendir('/path/to/files')) {
   echo "Directory handle: $handle\n";
   echo "Files:\n";

   /* This is the correct way to loop over the directory. */
   while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
       echo "$file\n";
   }

   /* This is the WRONG way to loop over the directory. */
   while ($file = readdir($handle)) {
       echo "$file\n";
   }

   closedir($handle);
}
?>

Example 2. List all files in the current directory and strip out . and ..

<?php
if ($handle = opendir('.')) {
   while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
       if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
           echo "$file\n";
       }
   }
   closedir($handle);
}
?>

Then I just edited a bit to echo the value in the select form field instead of just outputing to the screen. Works great. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.