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

[Gareth Ablett]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sussex-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:sussex-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Mark
> Harrison (Groups)
> Sent: 13 February 2005 10:14 pm
> To: LUG email list for the Sussex Counties
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] PHP Question: How to include all files in a
directory
> 
> Steve Dobson wrote:
> 
> >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
> >
> >
> system ("ls /.../lib/functions/*.php > ./listfilename")
> $fp = fopen("./listfilename")
> 
> ?
> 
> M.
man that's a very messy method of getting file list.

if ( $myfiles = scandir($dir) )
{
  for( $x=0; $x<count(myfiles)-1; $x++)
  {
	if ( substr($myfiles[$x],13,3) == 'php')
  	{
  		require_once $myfiles[$x];
  	}
  }
}
else
{
	echo "error looking at {$dir} or no files found";
}

Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

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