Question

I would like to know how one can write PHP code to read filenames from a particular folder and save the extracted filenames in an XML document?

An example of any part of this would be HIGHLY appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

Modify the code example found at readdir() manual a bit, and you’re done! Something like this could work:

<?php
$out="<FileList>\n";
if ($handle = opendir('.')) {
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
        if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
            $out.='<file>'.$file."</file>\n";
        }
    }
    closedir($handle);
}
$out.='</FileList>';
file_put_contents("./outfile.xml",$out);
?>