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Working with files - return an array of files within a directory

Working with files - return an array of files within a directory

Great for getting, say a list of Word docs available for downloading in a directory, and creating 
links to them. 

<? 
function listFilesInDir($start_dir) 
    { 
     
    /* 
    returns an array of files in $start_dir (not recursive) 
    */ 
         
    $files = array(); 
    $dir = opendir($start_dir); 
    while(($myfile = readdir($dir)) !== false) 
        { 
        if($myfile != '.' && $myfile != '..' && !is_file($myfile) && $myfile ! 
= 'resource.frk' && !eregi('^Icon',$myfile) ) 
            { 
            $files[] = $myfile; 
            } 
        } 
    closedir($dir); 
    return $files; 
    } 
?> 

Example: 
<? 
$dir = 'downloads/wordDocs/public/topic_1'; 
$wordDocs = listFilesInDir($dir); 

foreach($wordDocs as $key => $fileName) 
    { 
    echo "<a href='{$dir}/{$fileName}'>{$fileName}</a><br />"; 
    } 
?>