php: Hide *. php from the listing of files.

[Daniel]

Hello, i'm sitting here and playing and trying to make a "pool" to a website in php.
What I'm going is to show the contents of a folder using php. So far I have managed to list all files in selected folder using:

<?php
 if ($handle = opendir('.')) {
   while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle)))
      {
          if ($file != "." && $file != "..")
      {
              $thelist .= '<a href="'.$file.'">&laquo;'.$file.'&raquo;  <br></a>';
          }
       }
  closedir($handle);
  }
?>

It is so far a list good enough for my purposes, except for one thing. I want to hide files with specifix extensions, specifically *. php.
I'm struggling to really figure this out, because I am completely blank on the field....

Daniel Reviewed by Daniel on 29th Sep 2010. php: Hide *. php from the listing of files. Hello, i'm sitting here and playing and trying to make a "pool" to a website in php. What I'm going is to show the contents of a folder using php. So far I have managed to list all files in selected folder using: <?php if ($handle = opendir('.')) { while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { $thelist .= '<a href="'.$file.'">&laquo;'.$file.'&raquo; <br></a>'; Rating: 5

[Lifetalk]

<?php

$list = array(); //define an empty array

if ($handle = opendir('.'))
{
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle)))
    {
        if ($file != "." && $file != "..")
        {
            array_push($list, $file);
        }
    }
closedir($handle);
sort($list);
}

foreach ($list as $file)
{
    $ext = substr(strrchr($file, '.'), 1);
    if ($ext !== 'php')
    {
        echo '<a href="'.$file.'">&laquo;'.$file.'&raquo; </a><br>';
    }
}

?>

[somik]

Or you can shorten up the code to have the same effect

<?php
$list = scandir('.');
foreach ($list as $file){
    $ext = pathinfo($file,PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
    if( ($file != ".") || ($file != "..") || ($ext != 'php') ){
        echo '<a href="'.$file.'">&laquo;'.$file.'&raquo; </a><br>';
    }
}
?>

[Daniel]

That one prints only the files that are NOT php, if I have understood your code correctly?

[somik]

Yep.

Add more extentions to hide as such

($ext != 'cgi') || ($ext != 'pl') || ($ext != 'html') || ($ext != 'htm') 

This will hide cgi, pl, html and html files aswell.

If you want to store these files list to a array,

<?php
$myList = array(); //Blank array to store non PHP files
$list = scandir('.');
foreach ($list as $file){
    $ext = pathinfo($file,PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
    if( ($file != ".") || ($file != "..") || ($ext != 'php') ){
        $myList[] = $file;
    }
}
?>

[litewarez]

why dont you just use glob ?

glob('files/*.{!php}'); 

http://www.jedit.org/users-guide/globs.html

note you might need to use GLOB_BRACE depending on your OS

glob('files/*.{!php}',GLOB_BRACE);