Getting directory contents

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Hi

I am trying to build a small script that retrieves a list of files in a given directory, into an array, then prints them to a text file, so it can be loaded by flash into a movie clip. The idea is that someone could just upload a file to a directory and next time the page loads it would show. I found a script that does it, but I would rather have a solid understanding of how it works.

The script I found is here
but after searching through php.net I cannot find the getDirectoryCon tent in the function list.

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You could use the readdir() function. The following should list the contents of a directory. I'm sure there are better ways to do this, but if you want to understand how everything works then this should be fine.
[PHP]$dirname = ".";
$dh = opendir($dirnam e);

while(!(($file = readdir($dh))) === false )){
if(is_dir("$dir name/$file")){
echo "(D) ";
}
echo $file . "<br />";
}
closedir($dh);[/PHP]
You can do whatever you want with the contents after you've read them in, like output them to a file. This should get you started.