Directory listing with file info

[ (-: Tenzel Kim Jensen? ]

Tenzel Kim wrote:
> Kim Jensen wrote:
>> I'd rather have links that read:
>>
>> Angelina Jolie
>>
>> than
>>
>> angelinajolie
>
> If I was just now creating the whole thing I
> could easily use the first examples as file names, but unfortunately I
> already have thousands of links using the second type of file names so
> going back and changing all of them manually or even by global
> search/replace would take ages.

Write a script to do that for you!

<?php
$oldfiles_dir = 'old/';
$newfiles_dir = 'new/';

foreach ($list as $val) {
/* get $charname :: fopen(), fgets(), fclose() */
copy($oldfiles_dir . $val, $newfiles_dir . $charname);
}

?>

And presto! :-)
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Erich Musick wrote:
> Pedro Graca wrote:
>> Erich Musick top-posted (and I changed the format):
>>>What about extensions such as pl, py, h, among others?
>>
>> In this case, it didn't seem necessary to make a generic function -- but
>> I agree that would have been a better option from the start :)
>

What about
filename.with.a.lot.of.dots
and
filename_without_dots
?

:-)


The generic function would have to deal with them!

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Kim Jensen wrote:
> Pedro Graca wrote:
>> Are you really sure you want to do that?
>> You have top open each and every file, read/print its contents, and close
>> the file. It might be a lot slow!
>
> About the slowness. Couldn't it be done so that it only took the files
> starting with a specific letter?
>
> So that if I want to see a listing of the files starting with A I'd open
> dir.php?letter=a

Or you could make a 'index' file and only open that one. Its contents
would be something like:

angelinajolie.txt Angelina Jolie
gwynnethpaltrow.txt Gwynneth Paltrow
judelaw.txt Jude Law
lawrenceolivier.txt Sir Lawrence Olivier
michaelgambon.txt Michael Gambon


Or use a database.


Of course these options assume the 'index' file and the database would
be updated for every new file ... (and deletions and changes).

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The code i posted earlier should work with that...

Pedro Graca wrote:
> Erich Musick wrote:
>
>>Pedro Graca wrote:
>>
>>>Erich Musick top-posted (and I changed the format):
>>>
>>>>What about extensions such as pl, py, h, among others?
>>>
>>>In this case, it didn't seem necessary to make a generic function -- but
>>>I agree that would have been a better option from the start :)
>>
>
> What about
> filename.with.a.lot.of.dots
> and
> filename_without_dots
> ?
>
> :-)
>
>
> The generic function would have to deal with them!
>

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Pedro Graca wrote:
> [ (-: Tenzel Kim Jensen? ]

Heh. That's the problem with having a split personality. Sometimes you
forget which is which :)

Kim Jensen or was that Tenzel Kim???

Pedro Graca wrote:
> Or use a database.

I was trying to avoid using a database for now, as I know that if I went
ahead with that, it would end up being so huge in scope that I'd never
finish it :)

> Of course these options assume the 'index' file and the database would
> be updated for every new file ... (and deletions and changes).

I have been considering the index file approach. However, considering
the speed problem is mainly a problem I don't want my visitors to
encounter making the slow "grab the info from all the files" version
could be done on my harddrive and the output of the script I could just
copy and paste into an index page. That way the slow stuff will be done
behind the scenes.

Maybe that's the best option. Hadn't considered that until just now.

Kim Jensen