On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 10:07 -0500, Daniel P. Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 23:13, Kirk Bailey <kbailey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [snip!]
> >
> > Can this be improved to exclude anything with a '.' or a '-' in it's name?
> > This will exclude the smileys and cgi-bin and such. If it can be persuaded
> > to read a 1 line description from each subdirectory it could then use THAT
> > as the text in the link, instead of the name. This could be useful in many
> > settings.
>
> Sure. Change:
>
> if (is_dir($d) && $d != '.' && $d != '..') {
>
> To:
>
> if (is_dir($d) && !preg_match('/[\.\-]/',$d)) {
>
> Keep in mind, though, that the change will no longer show anything
> that matches the below either:
>
> example.directory
> example-directory
> special-images
> css.files
>
> In other words, you may instead want to explicitly state which
> directories to omit, and then drop anything that begins with a dot as
> well (hidden directories on *NIX-like boxes) like so:
>
> <?php
> $excludes[] = 'cgi-bin';
> $excludes[] = 'vti_cnf';
> $excludes[] = 'private';
> $excludes[] = 'thumbnail';
>
> $ls = scandir(dirname(__FILE__));
> foreach ($ls as $d) {
> if (is_dir($d) && !preg_match('/^\./',basename($d)) &&
> !in_array(basename($d),$excludes)) {
> echo '<li><a href="'.$d.'">'.$d.'</a><br/>'.PHP_EOL;
> }
> }
> ?>
>
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damn you Daniel... I was just about to reply with almost the EXACT same
answer!!!
I think the last example would probably be the best one to use, that way
you can still have some directories with the . or - or even the _ in the
names, and still be able to display them.
Steve
ps thanks for saving me type it all out Daniel :)
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