On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:02:21 +0000, Luis Moreira
<luis.moreira@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Have you tried to read the manual ?
> There is a lot of info on how to do this.
> Anyway, I think this does the trick :
>
> if ($handle = opendir('FULLPATHNAME')) {
> while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
> if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
>
You can use this with combination of basename, dirname etc.
> At this point, $file contains the file name.
> On the next cycle, it will get the next name, and so on.
>
>
> Luis
>
> Vaibhav Sibal wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >I wanted to ask whether there is a way whereby a script can read
> >filenames from a particular directory on the server and enter those
> >filenames with the complete path into the MySQL database? I am trying
> >to do this, because I am developing an application where a supervisor
> >will be distributing files to different users, and those users are to
> >work on the files allocated to them by the supervisor. There is a big
> >pool of files containing around 10k-15k files and the supervisor will
> >be instructed to allocate around 200 files to a user each day, and the
> >user should be able to open that file and work on it. I am using a
> >Linux Fedora core 2 server running Apache 2.0.53 and PHP 5.0.3 and
> >MySQL, and my clients are Windows clients. So I wanted to ask all of
> >you people what would be a better approach to do this, the following
> >are the 2 options :
> >
> >
> >(1)As soon as the supervisor selects say around 200 files for a user
> >called robert, 200 files from the file pool automatically get copied
> >to the home directory of robert. While they are copied to the home
> >directory of Robert, the name of each file with their complete path
> >name gets logged onto the database. Now I am doing since because I
> >need to know where each file went and what user is working on what
> >file. Now since robert is working on a client running on windows, we
> >can map a drive of windows onto the home directory of robert. In this
> >scenario can we instruct PHP to open files from a local directory
> >(i.e. the mapped directory of windows)? Because I need to, somehow,
> >log when a user opened the file and when he closed it.
> >
> >(2) The second scenario is that, I just enter the name of the files
> >allocated to a user alongwith the complete pathnames to a database and
> >I have another column this time where I store the user's name. Now
> >whenever the user logs into our system using his username and
> >password, and checks to see his work, he sees a list of files on the
> >browser itself, but now we will have to convert this list of files
> >into links so that the user can click on the links and directly open
> >the file in the required software from the server itself. The issue,
> >again, in this kind of design is that how do i open the file in the
> >required software and even if i do it then how do i record when the
> >user opened the file and when he finished working on it.
> >
> >I would request all of you to please help me in this, since I am a
> >student and in the learning phase and this is a part of my project. If
> >you have any doubts about whatever I have written here please write
> >to me. I would be really grateful if you all could help me in this
> >endeavour.
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >
> >Vaibhav
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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