select files with certain extension

[kaancho12]

is it possible to select all the files in a directory that have say "_test" in their name in one swoop?
if this is similar to the linux command example: find -name "*_the.jpg" then that would work perfectly

 

[DRJ478]

Have a look at glob():

http://www.php.net/glob

 

[unborn]

didnt know about glob but this is a part of the script i made a while ago for a text newscript i first wrote... it seperates the file extension from the file and then makes sure the file is a # because my news posts were # format.. but you could modify very easily..

//get news files from dir
	$currentdir = $news_directory;              //current dirdirectory
	$dir = opendir("$currentdir");				//opens the directory
	while ($file = readdir($dir))				//loops through gettign all files
	{
		$fcheck = explode(".",$file);			//splits file name from extension
		$fname= $fcheck[0];						//gets file name
		$fext = $fcheck[1];						//gets extension
		if (is_numeric($fname))					//checks if its a news post
		{
			$flist = $flist.":$fname.$fext" ;	//puts all file names into a string
		}
	}
	$news = explode(":",$flist);				//splits file name string up into an array
	rsort($news);								//sorts the news posts newest to oldest

in the begining man created code.
in the end code will create man.
clones are coming only matter of time.
examples?

http://planetsourcecode.com

 

[danomac]

unborn:

You forgot to mention that the snippet of code you posted will not work with a filename with more than one decimal. It will fail on a filename of 'this.is.a.test'.

To fix that you'd need to replace:

$fcheck = explode(".",$file);            //splits file name from extension
$fname= $fcheck[0];                        //gets file name
$fext = $fcheck[1];                        //gets extension

with something like

// Should work with something like
// 'this.is.a.test'
$fnameSeperator = strrpos($filename, '.');
$fname = substr($filename, 0, $fnameSeperator);
$fext = substr($filename, $fnameSeperator + 1);

I haven't tested that though.