Question

I have a piece of php that if a specified folder has a file in, it will display the filename, date created and present a download button, if the folder is empty it will show nothing. This works very well but if I have more than one file in the folder it bunches all the filenames together – what I want is the separate information displayed for every file.

To help you understand the problem here is an image showing the problem and the code. I got very far on my own but its way above my head, I just cant see a simple way to correct the problem. The code may look very awkward and odd as I’m totally new at this but it looks visually right on the browser. I would really appreciate any help thank you.

Here is an image of the problem: http://i46.tinypic.com/m79cvs.png

    <?php if (!empty($thelist)) { ?>
<p class="style12"><u>Fix</u></p>
<p class="style12"><?=$thelist?><?php echo " - " ?> <?php $filename = '../../customers/client1/client1.fix.exe';
if (file_exists($filename)) {
    echo "" . date ("m/d/Y", filemtime($filename));
}
?> <?php echo " - <a href='download.php?f=client1/client1.fix.exe'><b>Download</b></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a     href='download.php?f=client1/client1.fix.exe'>
<img src='../css/images/dlico.png' alt='download' width='35' height='32'     align='absmiddle' /></a>" ?>
</p>
<?php } ?>

Answer 1

The list ($thelist) contains your files, yes?
You are not working on the $thelist, but on the $filename which is a hardcoded string.
Why? Currently you are outputting <?=$thelist?> and it looks like concatenated string from filenames. I would suggest that $thelist should be something like an array of your files. Then you could iterate over the files and output html dynamically for each entry.

<?php
    // define your directory here
    $directory = xy; 

    // fetches all executable files in that directory and loop over each
    foreach(glob($directory.'/*.exe') as $file) { 
        // output each name and mtime
        echo $file . '-' . date ("m/d/Y", filemtime($file));
        // or you might also build links dynamically
        // $directory needs to be added here
        echo '<a href="'.$file.'">'.$file.' - Size: '.filesize($file).'</a>';
    }
?>