John Davidson

Message:

I am very inexperienced with PHP. I have a folder on a website which will receive files named with a numeric date structure. I need href links to be created for the files which are dropped into this folder. I need the link text to be formatted by with a textual month and numeric day. For example:

File name "01-02-22 BULLETIN.pdf" becomes

<href="bulletins/2022/$file">January 2</a>.

I have been messing with the code below from this post PHP to create Links for files in a folder, but I can't seem to figure it out. The links are appearing but any date formatting I attempt returns "error Call to a member function format()."

Thanks for your help!

<?php

                    $dir = "bulletins/2022/";



                    // Open a directory, and read its contents

                    if (is_dir($dir)){

                      if ($dh = opendir($dir)){

                        while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false){

                          echo "<a href=bulletins/2022/$file>$file</a><br>";   

                    }

                    closedir($dh);

                    }

                    }

                    ?>

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My Answer:
: 20210101_file.pdf

Desired link text: January 1

Here is a PHP script that will scan the folder for files and create href links with the formatted date text:

php
$folder = 'path/to/folder'; // Specify the path to the folder here

$files = scandir($folder);

foreach ($files as $file) {
if ($file != '.' && $file != '..') {
$date = substr($file, 0, 8); // Extract the date from the file name
$timestamp = strtotime($date); // Convert the date to a timestamp
$formatted_date = date('F j', $timestamp); // Format the date as 'Month Day'

echo '' . $formatted_date . '
';
}
}
?>


Replace `'path/to/folder'` with the actual path to your folder. This script will loop through all the files in the folder, extract the date from the file name, convert it to a timestamp, format it as 'Month Day', and create an href link with the formatted date text.