[Sussex] PHP Question: How to include all files in a directory

Steve Dobson steve at dobson.org
Sun Feb 13 21:20:02 UTC 2005


Matt

On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 07:36:22PM +0000, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:05:14 +0000 Steve Dobson <steve at dobson.org> wrote:
> > I am developing a little PHP system and I want to make it easy
> > for users/SysAdmins to add their own functions PHP extension routes.
> > 
> > Is there any way of "require_once('lib/functions/*.php');" so that
> > all the user has to do is install his functions in the lib/functions
> > dir and the system will automatically pick them up.
> 
> Steve,
> 
> You could create a file called include.php and have it do the following:
> 
> foreach($fileList)
> {
> 	require_once("filename")
> }
> 
> and then just:
> 
> require_once("include.php");
> 
> bear in mind this is pseudo-code and could be extremely server intensive,
> but it is one way I can think of!

But where do I get $fileList from?

Steve




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