I just got a new website host on June 19th, and I'm already hosting 4 sites for some friends (via subdomains). I've made a section that will show the hosted sites. Though I want it to self-manage itself, meaning automatically updating with a PHP method. I have an idea for it, and I'm trying to implement it, but my method consists of a long if statement with a lot of AND's (&&). My idea is to make the method return a list of folders from the root directory except the ones that apply to my main site (such folders as _private, css, images, forums, cgi-bin). Right now, the if tells the method to only display if the listing is not any of those folders.

This is not what I want. All of those AND's in the if statement slows things down, and what's worse is that the function I'm using (read()) displays files too.

Might anyone have a method to list folders and only folders - even better would be subdomains if it's possible.

Thanks!
//KiroS

I took your idea and tried to simplify it. Let me know if it helps (I have not tested it).

PHP Code:

<?php
  
  // Exclude list of directories not to show
  $exclude_array = Array (
    
    '_private', 'css', 'images', 'forums', 'cgi_bin'
  );
  
  $base_dir = '/home/public_html/';
  
  $display = Array();
  
  $d = dir($base_dir);
  while ($f = $d->read()) {
    
    if (!in_array($f, $exclude_array) && is_dir($f)) $display[] = $f;
  }
  
  // All unmarked directories are now in an array $display
  
?>

Thank you, I appreciate the help, though unfortunately, it's not displaying anything. I've tried changing the base directory and even using it in a literal/concrete way instead of with the variable. No dice. I'm assuming a bug is in the if statement, but it might be in the while... I don't use while's that much :P

Though like I said before, not even a single directory displays.

The sample above won't display anything, it just puts the results in an array. Try placing print_r($display); at the end to see the array elements.

* Also, you might need to add to the exclude array two more elements "." and ".." to exclude both current directory and parent directory. I finally tested, and it is working.

(accidental early post)

(accidental early post)

Ok, thank you, I didn't realize that :P

Though are there any functions to return if there is more to the array and if so, move to the next item in the array. I'm thinking about using a for loop, but I'm unfamiliar with arrays in PHP. Are they like C++, where say you would be able to use a for loop as such:

for ($i = 0; $i < $display.length; $i++)
{
    //some code
    print_r($display[$i]);
    /some more code
}

Sorry, I'm not really sure about the variables with the $'s either

A simple way to echo links would be like:

(appended to the sample script I show above)

PHP Code:

foreach($display as $value) {
  
  echo '<a href="http://www.domain.com/' . $value . '">' . $value . '</a><br />';
} 


I've used this one before: http://evoluted.net/community/code/directorylisting.php
Works pretty good for listing folders (haven't used it to do subdomains). They have a demo on their site.

Hmmm... This is odd... I have tried your code again, mgraphic, and I'm having a problem.

This code:

PHP Code:

<?php
 
  // Exclude list of directories not to show
  $exclude_array = Array (
 
  '_private', 'css', 'images', 'forums', 'cgi_bin'
  );
 
  $base_dir = '/home/kirosite/kirosite.com/html/';
 
  $display = Array();
 
  $d = dir("/home/kirosite/kirosite.com/html/");
  while ($f = $d->read()) {
 
    if (!in_array($f, $exclude_array) && is_dir($f)) $display[] = $f;
  }
 
  // All unmarked directories are now in an array $display
 
?>

And this code:

PHP Code:

foreach($display as $value) {
 
  // Slightly changed anchor code
  echo '<a href="http://' . $value . '.mysite.com/">' . $value . '&apos;s Site!</a><br />';
} 


Is not working together :? I'm using PHP 4.4 by the way.
Does it work for you?

What is it outputting? Can you offer the url of where the script is so I can see the parsed output?

I have the first, very inefficient and not complete method at the top. After that, I have "-- Another Test --" to show the break and evidently (from looking at the source) that code causes an error because not even the ending body and html tags show up.

The website is: kiros(deletethis)ite.com/(deletethis)first_try_homepage/(deletethis)hostlist.php

I'm sorry about that somewhat messed up link, but I don't want any bots going to the site because it's still in it's very, very early stages and I haven't had any time to really work on it...

Edit:

Hmm... I changed the location to the literal html directory... Now it's working a little bit... I'll keep trying to see if I can get it to work.

Small bump... I added a degging section and the PHP body code. Take a look, please... Sorry for the trouble though...

Good news! I've figured out the problem. I do not have any idea why, but it's not accepting the directory I put in, so I'm assuming that it's defaulting to the path of the file. This is not a problem, as the path for the file will move to the root once I complete a basic part of the site.

Thank you a lot mgraphic!
I'm sorry for all the trouble I gave you!

Though there's just one more thing I need to touch on...
Do I have to use the close function after the main code? And if it's not imperative, should I still for security/stability reasons or does it not matter at all? O_o

Congrads!

Do you mean using the directory closing function? I'm not an expert on this, but I think the benefit of this is to close it to allow for another instance to take place from another request process. I think (maybe) that once a dir is declared open, it is locked.

Please let me know if I'm off base on this...