Ron, I've got a function that does it for directories, and I've just quickly modified it for you to do what you've stated, you can modify it if there is a problem. try this: $files = recurseDirectory("/home/mydir", null, null); foreach ($files as $i => $filename) { print "procesed $i $filename\n"; } //-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- function recurseDirectory($currentdir, $startdir=NULL, $files=array()) //-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- { chdir ($currentdir); // remember where we started from if (!$startdir) { $startdir = $currentdir; } $d = opendir ("."); //list the files in the dir while ($file = readdir ($d)) { if ($file != ".." && $file != ".") { if (is_dir ($file)) { // If $file is a directory take a look inside $files = $this->recurseDirectory(getcwd().'/'.$file, getcwd(), $files); //$files[] = $file; // add this if you want to output dir name } else { // If $ file is not a directory then add it to our output array $files[] = $file; if (strstr($file,".schema")) { // or u can use preg_match if more comfortable // fopen file etc etc, insert your code here } } } } closedir ($d); chdir ($startdir); return $files; } "Ron Herhuth" <Ron.Herhuth@tatumpartners.com> wrote in message 4e0c01c38122$76b60f60$f25d2981@tatumlink.com">news:4e0c01c38122$76b60f60$f25d2981@tatumlink.com... I'm stuck. I have been attempting to put together a script with little tidbits I've found in the manual but I'm unable to figure out how to do this. Basically I have a directory structure on my server that runs many levels deep and wide. In the directories there are several files with the extension name ".schema" I would like to have my script go through and open each of these files (they are text files) and add the contents to a variable which I will then store in a database. I know how to display the contents of a directory, as well as open and read text files...and write to a database. The problem I'm having is building the component that traverses the directory structure pulling back all the files. I can make it read a single directory at a time but I'm at a loss to tell it how to navigate through the directories. This app is not for anything malicious, but I need a dynamic archive of all the schemas and if I get brave I want to write an extraction tool to extract the SQL queries from the schemas and catagorize them for future use. Thanks, Ron -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php