Posted by Graham Cossey on 11/22/05 16:38

On 11/22/05, Jay Blanchard <jay.blanchard@thermon.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> I'm attempting to read a list of files in a directory using readdir()
> but am having problems with mpeg files not seemingly being read.
>
> Cope snippet:
>
> $count = 0;
> while (false !== ($file = readdir($open_dir)))
> {
> if ($file != '.' && $file != '..')
> {
> if (file_exists("$VID_DIR/$file"))
> {
> $count++;
>
> $count counts any 'avi' files but not 'mpg' files.
> [/snip]
>
> Without seeing the rest of the code I am going to assume that $open_dir is
> the handle for the directory the files are in. Given that, why would you
> specify a directory in your file_exists function? I am unsure why
> file_exists would be necessary at this point. Eliminate that condition and
> see what the results are
>
Yes $open_dir is the handle from opendir().

The file_exists is simply checking for an associated file elsewhere as
I'm looking for video files and thumbnails.

As I said, this works fine for avi suffixed files but not mpg or mpeg
suffixed files.

--
Graham

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