opening a file when you do not know the full name

[bill]

I have a directory into which I upload pictures. I know the
entire file name other than the extension.

file_exists will return true when I give it a wildcard extension,
but I can't figure out the best way to determine the extension
for fopen.

I sure don't want to troll through the entire directory with
readdir.

I would appreciate suggestions.

bill

[pangea33]

Re: opening a file when you do not know the full name


bill wrote:

I have a directory into which I upload pictures. I know the
entire file name other than the extension.
>
file_exists will return true when I give it a wildcard extension,
but I can't figure out the best way to determine the extension
for fopen.
>
I sure don't want to troll through the entire directory with
readdir.
>
I would appreciate suggestions.
>
bill

If you use the "find" command with exec() you can get a list of files
that match your criteria. Essentially using the filename you already
know, and then a wildcard for the extension...

find /var/www/directory/pics2 -name "weddingphoto.* "

For me this outputs: /var/www/directory/pics2/weddingphoto.jp g

If you output the results into a file or into a variable, you can then
parse it for whatever is relevent to you.

find /var/www/directory/pics2 -name "weddingphoto.* " >
/var/www/directory/pics2/results.txt

[Michael Fesser]

Re: opening a file when you do not know the full name

..oO(bill)

>I have a directory into which I upload pictures. I know the
>entire file name other than the extension.
>
>file_exists will return true when I give it a wildcard extension,
>but I can't figure out the best way to determine the extension
>for fopen.

http://www.php.net/glob

Micha

[pangea33]

Re: opening a file when you do not know the full name

Michael Fesser wrote:

.oO(bill)
>

I have a directory into which I upload pictures. I know the
entire file name other than the extension.

file_exists will return true when I give it a wildcard extension,
but I can't figure out the best way to determine the extension
for fopen.

>

http://www.php.net/glob

>
Micha

Not so sure that I agree using a function in an application, that
communicates with the OS via a webserver, is a better choice than
something native to the operating system, but this solution will
definitely work. Probably easier to handle the result set too.

[bill]

Re: opening a file when you do not know the full name

pangea33 wrote:

Michael Fesser wrote:

>.oO(bill)
>>

>>I have a directory into which I upload pictures. I know the
>>entire file name other than the extension.
>>>
>>file_exists will return true when I give it a wildcard extension,
>>but I can't figure out the best way to determine the extension
>>for fopen.

>http://www.php.net/glob
>>
>Micha

>
Not so sure that I agree using a function in an application, that
communicates with the OS via a webserver, is a better choice than
something native to the operating system, but this solution will
definitely work. Probably easier to handle the result set too.
>

In my case where there is only one result, should work a treat.

Thanks

bill