[PHP] Re: drop down menu populated from a directory

[Dustin Krysak]

ok, I added brackets and made my code to:
<?php
if ($handle = opendir('../../../mov')) {
   while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
       if ($file != '.' && $file != '..') {
           $fileName = str_replace('.mov', '', $file);
           echo '<option value="../../../mov/' . $file . '">' . 
$fileName . '</option>';
       }
   }
   closedir($handle);
}
?>

when viewing my page in a browser, it worked! Now what I am hoping to 
do is put this menu on a PHP page, and have a qt movie placeholder and 
when this menu is used - replace the placeholder with the selected qt 
movie... I am just not sure how to do this.

Thanks in advance!
d

On 31-May-04, at 10:26 AM, Dustin Krysak wrote:
I gave it a go, and I got the error:
"Parse error: parse error, unexpected '}'"
This was on the last "}". Now I am brand new at php, but should there 
not be an opening and closing curly bracket? in this code there are 
one "{" and three "}"

So I made my code:
<?php
if ($handle = opendir('../../../mov')) {
   while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle)))
       if ($file != '.' && $file != '..')
           $fileName = str_replace('.mov', '', $file);
           echo '<option value="' . $file . '">' . $fileName . 
'</option>';
   closedir($handle);
}
?>

And it does display the name in the menu... so that is a good start, 
but the link doesn't work when selected. So I am assuming hte code 
does need those brackets, and I rather need to open the opening one...

d

On 31-May-04, at 2:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: "Torsten Roehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: May 30, 2004 5:14:28 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: drop down menu populated from a directory
"Dustin Krysak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there....
What I am hoping to do is have a drop down menu that would be 
populated
from the contents of a directory via php. Now The link names would be
generated by the file name minus the file extension. Has anyone seen 
a
tutorial on accomplishing something like this? All of the links would
be to quicktime movies, but I am hoping to have them embedded in HTML
(or PHP)..... So the movie is displayed in a browser....

thanks in advance!
This should do the trick:
// opening select tag goes here...
if ($handle = opendir('/path/to/files')) {
   while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle)))
       if ($file != '.' && $file != '..')
           $fileName = str_replace('.mov', '', $file);
           echo '<option value="' . $file . '">' . $fileName . 
'</option>';
       }
   }
   closedir($handle);
}

// closing select tag goes here
Haven't tested it. Hope it works and helps ;)
Regards,
Torsten Roehr

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