Hello i am pretty much brand new to PHP and MySQL and i need some help setting up an application in PHP than can browse my linux computer for all .mp3 files and will display them and allow them to be available for download from anyone who visits the web page...can anyone help?

Use this http://lt.php.net/manual/en/function.scandir.php function

awesome thank you very much....is there any way i can use that to search for only one type of file...like can i impliment something like scandir(*.php) or something and have it out put only one file type?

no there is no function ike you wish

ok thank you very much

oh and i had one more question......how do create a link to download a file you find in a directory...say you find an mp3 file and you want to allow viewers to be able to download that file...how would you do it?

Originally Posted by Spicecube914

oh and i had one more question......how do create a link to download a file you find in a directory...say you find an mp3 file and you want to allow viewers to be able to download that file...how would you do it?

simply

lets say i fave all file names in array $mp3_files;

PHP Code:


foreach ($mp3_file as $file) {
   echo '<a href="path/to/mp3/files/dir/'.$file.'">'.$file.'</a><br />';
} 


awesome again!.....this question is kind of away from php but when it prints out the files it gives me all the album art and thumbs and stuff....do you know how to delete those?

Originally Posted by Spicecube914

awesome again!.....this question is kind of away from php but when it prints out the files it gives me all the album art and thumbs and stuff....do you know how to delete those?

you do not have to delete files, just filter filelist

PHP Code:

foreach ($mp3_file as $file) {
    if (eregi('.mp3$', $file)) {
        echo '<a href="path/to/mp3/files/dir/'.$file.'">'.$file.'</a><br />';
    }
} 


wow thank you very much...im sure i will have more questions so please keep an eye out here

I want to do somehting like this... Heres what I got going on.

I'm doing a linux how-to site. (never enough how-to sites )

Each how-to is in html format. they are named like this Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO.html

What I would like to happen is for php to look in the how-to dir and list them on a page is alphabetical order while stripping part of the name off them.

So it would look like this.

ACPI
ADSL-Bandwidth-Management
ADSM
AI-Alife
ATA-RAID
ATM-Linux
AX25

instead of this

ACPI-HOWTO.html 
ADSL-Bandwidth-Management-HOWTO.html 
ADSM-Backup.html 
AI-Alife-HOWTO.html 
ATA-RAID-HOWTO.html 
ATM-Linux-HOWTO.html 
AX25-HOWTO.html

and I want them all to be links. and when you click on them it will open them in a new window.

Can someone show me how to do this?

PHP Code:

//lets say you have all files in $files array

foreach ($files as $file) {
    //explode file in temp array
    $tmp = explode('HOWTO', $file);
    //now we have $tmp array that containts $tmp = array(0=>'ACPI-', 1=>'.html') so we just need to remove (-) symbol
    $link_name = substr($tmp[0], 0, -1);
    $links_array = '<a href="'.$file.'">'.$link_name.'</a>';
} 


Hey im back with a couple questions...first of all i want to k now how to change the working directory of the apache web server...im using windows xp if that matters....and i also want to know how to make a configuration file....so if i want to share my mp3 download script, the user can change the directory that the files will be in...thanks

this is the change directory function
chdir('dir_name');