John Davidson

Message:

i'm working on a Joomla 3.x component, I'm trying to build an array with folders, files and filenames, I can get the Folders and Files , including paths, which I want, but have been unable to get it to return the names using "basename()" to get just the name.ext . I get an error regarding passing an array to "basename()" in lieu of a string, I've tried "foreach" but it only returns the last item in the array.

Below is the code

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function getPathContents()  {



  $this->directory = 'some/directory';

  $recursive       = '1';

  $this->recursive = ($recursive == 'true' || $recursive == 'recursive' || $recursive == '1');

  $this->exclude_folders = '';

  $this->exclude_files = '';

  $options = array();

  $filenames = array();

  $filename = basename($filenames);

  $path = $this->directory;



    if (!is_dir($path))

    {

        if (is_dir(JPATH_ROOT . '/' . $path))

        {

            $path = JPATH_ROOT . '/' . $path;

        }

        else

        {

            return;

        }

    }



    $path = JPath::clean($path);

    $folders = JFolder::folders($path, $this->filter, $this->recursive, true);



    // Build the options list from the list of folders.

    if (is_array($folders))

    {



    foreach ($folders as $folder)

    {



        $options['folders'] = $folders;





    $files = JFolder::files($folder, $this->filter, $this->recursive, true);

    if (is_array($files))

    {



        foreach ($files as $file)

        {



        $options['files'] = $files;



        }



    $filenames = JFolder::files($folder, $this->filter, $this->recursive, true);

    if (is_array($filenames))

    {



        foreach ($files as $filename)

        {



        $options['filenames'] = $filename;



        }

    }

    }

    }



    return $options;

}

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any help would be great

UPDATE: Below Code will provide list of Folders and additional arrays of files located in each folder. Each file array is labeled with the Folders name.

Code

function getFolersfiles() {

  $this->directory = 'yourpath';

  $recursive       = '1';

  $this->recursive = ($recursive == 'true' || $recursive == 'recursive' || $recursive == '1');

  $this->exclude_folders = '';

  $this->exclude_files = '';

  $path = $this->directory;



    if (!is_dir($path))

    {

        if (is_dir(JPATH_ROOT . '/' . $path))

        {

            $path = JPATH_ROOT . '/' . $path;

        }

        else

        {

            return;

        }

    }



    $path = JPath::clean($path);

    $options2['folders'] = JFolder::folders($path, $this->filter, $this->recursive, true);



    // Build the options list from the list of folders.

    if (is_array($options2))

    {



    foreach ($options2['folders'] as $option2)

    {



    $optionname = basename($option2);

    $options2[$optionname] = JFolder::files($option2, $this->filter, $this->recursive, true);

    //$options2['filepath'] = JFolder::files($option2, $this->filter, $this->recursive, true);



    }



    return $options2;

}

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Thank you for the help

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My Answer:
the following code:

php
$files = array();
$dir = 'path/to/directory';

function getFiles($dir){
global $files;
$items = scandir($dir);
foreach($items as $item){
if($item != '.' && $item != '..'){
$path = $dir.'/'.$item;
if(is_dir($path)){
getFiles($path);
} else {
$files[] = $path;
}
}
}
}

getFiles($dir);

foreach($files as $file){
$filename = basename($file);
echo $filename . '
';
}


This code will loop through all the files in the specified directory and its subdirectories, and then use the `basename()` function to extract just the filename from the full path. This way, you can easily access and display just the filenames from the array of files.