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PHP: Display a customizeable list of files in a directory

<!-- google_ad_section_start --> <!-- ALL ADSENSE ADS DISABLED --> Apache gives you a list of files in an empty directory by default, but sometimes you will want to show a list of files that are in a directory through PHP so that you can customize the output of the list, and make a “pretty” listing of files. Here’s the basic code to make a list.


<?php
if ($handle = opendir(’.‘)) {
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle)))
{
if ($file != “.” && $file != “..“)
{
$thelist .= ‘<a href=”‘.$file.’“>‘.$file.’</a>‘;
}
}
closedir($handle);
}
?>
<P>List of files:</p>
<P><?=$thelist?></p></pre>
That’s about all you need to do. You could also put the list of files into an array if you felt like it, or use this as the beginning for a thumbnail page, which is what I used it for.