Question

How may i able to retrieve different file extensions in a certain directory. Let say i have a folder named “downloads/”, where inside that folder are different types of files like PDFs, JPEGs, DOC files etc. So in my PHP code i wanted those files be retrieved and listed with there file names and file extensions. Example: Inside “downloads/” folder are different files

downloads/

 - My Poem.doc
 - My Photographs.jpg
 - My Research.pdf

So i wanted to view those files where i can get there file names, file extensions, and file directories. So in view will be something like this

Title: My Poem
Type: Document
Link: [url here] 

Title: My Photographs
Type: Image
Link: [url here] 

Title: My Research
Type: PDF
Link: [url here] 

Anyone knows how to do it in php? Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

It’s pretty simple. To be honest i don’t know why didn’t you searched on a php.net. They got whole lots of examples for this. Check it in here: click

Example:

<?php

  function process_dir($dir,$recursive = FALSE) {
    if (is_dir($dir)) {
      for ($list = array(),$handle = opendir($dir); (FALSE !== ($file = readdir($handle)));) {
        if (($file != '.' && $file != '..') && (file_exists($path = $dir.'/'.$file))) {
          if (is_dir($path) && ($recursive)) {
            $list = array_merge($list, process_dir($path, TRUE));
          } else {
            $entry = array('filename' => $file, 'dirpath' => $dir);

 //---------------------------------------------------------//
 //                     - SECTION 1 -                       //
 //          Actions to be performed on ALL ITEMS           //
 //-----------------    Begin Editable    ------------------//

  $entry['modtime'] = filemtime($path);

 //-----------------     End Editable     ------------------//
            do if (!is_dir($path)) {
 //---------------------------------------------------------//
 //                     - SECTION 2 -                       //
 //         Actions to be performed on FILES ONLY           //
 //-----------------    Begin Editable    ------------------//

  $entry['size'] = filesize($path);
  if (strstr(pathinfo($path,PATHINFO_BASENAME),'log')) {
    if (!$entry['handle'] = fopen($path,r)) $entry['handle'] = "FAIL";
  }

 //-----------------     End Editable     ------------------//
              break;
            } else {
 //---------------------------------------------------------//
 //                     - SECTION 3 -                       //
 //       Actions to be performed on DIRECTORIES ONLY       //
 //-----------------    Begin Editable    ------------------//

 //-----------------     End Editable     ------------------//
              break;
            } while (FALSE);
            $list[] = $entry;
          }
        }
      }
      closedir($handle);
      return $list;
    } else return FALSE;
  }

  $result = process_dir('C:/webserver/Apache2/httpdocs/processdir',TRUE);

 // Output each opened file and then close
  foreach ($result as $file) {
    if (is_resource($file['handle'])) {
        echo "\n\nFILE (" . $file['dirpath'].'/'.$file['filename'] . "):\n\n" . fread($file['handle'], filesize($file['dirpath'].'/'.$file['filename']));
        fclose($file['handle']);
    }
  }

?>