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Automatic test directory links

Type:	code fragment
Added by:	bkosse
Entered:	06/12/2000
Last modified:	01/12/2000
Rating:	- (fewer than 3 votes)
Views:	5041

I find myself frequently making various tests/sample sites/etc in PHP that I like to keep around.

This is a code fragment I use to automatically generate a table containing a series of links.

<?php

                            $path_sep = '/'; // Unix all the way, baby!
 $max_print_size = 255; // more than 255 chars is getting awefully long

                            
 $test_dir_path = "/home/bkosse/public_html/test";
 $file_name = "test-description"; // description file name
 $testdir = dir( $test_dir_path );

                            

                            print '<TABLE ALIGN="CENTER" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" BORDER="2" WIDTH="50%">' . "n";

                            

                            while($entry=$testdir->read()) {

                                if( $entry == "." || $entry == ".." ) continue;

                                $testing = $test_dir_path . $path_sep . $entry;

                                if( !is_dir( $testing ) ) continue;

                                $description_file = @fopen( $testing . $path_sep . $file_name, "r" );

                                if( $description_file ){

                                    $description = fread( $description_file, $max_print_size );

                                    $description = trim( $description );

                                    $description = str_replace( "n", "<BR>n", $description );

                                    fclose( $description_file );

                                } 

                                else {

                                    $description = "&nbsp;(no description)&nbsp;";

                                }

                                

                                $display_entry = ucwords( strtr( $entry, "_", " " ) );

                                print "<TR>n";

                                print "<TD WIDTH="30%"><B><A HREF="$entry/">$display_entry";

                                print "</A></B>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>n";

                                print "<TD WIDTH="70%">$description</TD>n";

                                print "</TR>n";

                            }
 $testdir->close();

                            

                            print "</TABLE>n";

                            
 ?>

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