Question

i’m having the user select a specific file from a directory using a drop down menu that opens and reads a directory.

there are some items in the directory listing that shouldn’t be there. items like

.
..
.com.apple.timemachine.supported
.DS_Store

how would i go about at removing these? they look like directory commands or information or something. the user shouldn’t be able to select these, even though i don’t think they ever would.

here is the code i’m using to read the directory and print the items into a drop down.

<div id='fileOpen'>    
<?
    $pathToImages = 'images/';
    $pathToVolume = '/Volumes/storage/spots_in/';

    if ($handle = opendir($pathToVolume)) {
?>
    <span class='locate'>Locate master file:</span>
    <select id='file' name='file'> 
<?
    while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle))) {
        echo "<option>";
        echo "$entry\n";
        echo "</option>";
    }
    closedir($handle);
 }
</div>

Answer 1

I use this

if (!preg_match("/^\./","$entry\n"))