[Ad] need a break from coding?
© copyright 12.May.2007 by Paul Bradley filed under PHP
[Ad] need a break from coding?
I have been creating a specialised content management system for a client, and on one of the forms I needed to have a selection list of possible images for the logo.
So I needed a PHP function that would create a HTML selection list based on filenames from the images directory. However I didn't want to list all the images, only those which started with a particular filename expression; in effect doing a logo*.*
The function also had to be able to highlight the previous selected image, which would be suppiled from the database.
So I came up with the following cbo_recursedir function which takes three parameters; the directory to scan, the filename expression to look for, and the default filename as stored in the database. The function would be used like so :-
<?php
echo cbo_recursedir('d:/images/', 'logo', 'logo-web.jpg');
?>
<?php
function cbo_recursedir($basedir, $findfiles, $value) {
$_content = '';
$_content .= '<select name="cbofileselect" size="1"';
$hndl = opendir($basedir);
while($file = readdir($hndl)) {
if ($file == '.' || $file == '..') continue;
if (is_dir($file)) {
/* if directory do nothing */
} else {
if(substr($file, 0, strlen($findfiles ))
== $findfiles) {
if($file == $value) {
$_content .= '<option value="' . $file .
'" SELECTED>' . $file . '</option>';
} else {
$_content .= '<option value="' . $file .
'">' . $file . '</option>';
}
}
}
}
$_content .= '</select>';
return $_content;
}
?>
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Paul Bradley is a VB.NET software developer living and working in Cumbria. He has over 20 years programming experience.
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