Question

I have a folder named “Comics” and sub folders in that directory with the names of comics + the issue

Example:

/Comics <-- Main Folder
    /Amazing Spider-Man 129 <-- Sub Folder
    /Hellblazer 100 <-- Sub Folder
    /Zatanna 01 <-- Sub Folder

Now what i want to do is scan the Comics directory and output each folder name as a mysql insert query. The actual folder name needs to be seperated as “Comic Name” & “Comic Issue”.

Example Query

mysql_query("INSERT INTO comics (name, issue) VALUES ('Amazing Spider-Man', '129')");

I got this far and now i want to add a query check to see if the comic exists or not.

<?php
    $main_folder = 'K:/Comics/'; // should be K:\Comics\ but I changed it because of the highlighting issue
    $folders = glob($main_folder.'* [0-9]*', GLOB_ONLYDIR);

    $comics_series = array();
    foreach($folders as $folder){
        $comics_series[] = preg_split('/(.+)\s(\d+)/', str_replace($main_folder, '', $folder), -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE|PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
    }

    $values = array();
    foreach($comics_series as $pair){
        $values[] = "('".mysql_real_escape_string($pair[0])."', '".((int) $pair[1])."')";
    }

    $check_query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM comics WHERE name='".$values[0]."' AND issue='".$values[1]."'");
    if ($check_query == '0'){
        $query = 'INSERT INTO comics (name, issue) VALUES '.implode(',', $values);
        $result = mysql_query($query);
            echo ($result) ? 'Inserted successfully' : 'Failed to insert the values';
    }
    ?> 

is that the right format for the query_check?

Answer 1

<?php
$main_folder = './Comics'; // should be K:\Comics\ but I changed it because of the highlighting issue
$folders = glob($main_folder.'* [0-9]*', GLOB_ONLYDIR);

$comics_series = array();
foreach($folders as $folder){
    $comics_series[] = preg_split('/(.+)\s(\d+)/', str_replace($main_folder, '', $folder), -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE|PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
}

$values = array();
foreach($comics_series as $pair){
    $values[] = "('".mysql_real_escape_string($pair[0])."', '".((int) $pair[1])."')";
}

$query = 'INSERT INTO comics (name, issue) VALUES '.implode(',', $values);
$result = mysql_query($query);
echo ($result) ? 'Inserted successfully' : 'Failed to insert the values';
?>