[PHP] Help ;)

[Dentafrice1]

Ok,

What I need is to check and see if files exists.

I know how to use file_exist.

But all the filenames have three characters.

I want to scan a specific directory for files.

AAA.gif
AAB.gif
AAC.gif

I need it to go all the way to ZZZ.gif

Any ideas on how to do it?

[Mentor]

Im to lazy to actualy write a script but the two functions you'll wana make use of are:

readdir()
preg_match()

Look em up on php.net and it will tell you all u need to know

[Dentafrice1]

Its not on my server though... unless this can read a remote dir?

[Mentor]

Its not on my server though... unless this can read a remote dir?

You cant do a directory scan of someone elses server o.0 you could possibly write a loop of all the possible file addresses and check them but that would be a painfuly slow script to run "/

[Dentafrice1]

I am looking through the badge directory of Habbo

I wanted to start with aaa and end with zzz.

But I don't know how to do all the possible filenames

[QuickScriptz]

You could try an array and write it all out but that isn't what your looking for right....?

Um... when it comes to scanning remote dir's you have to also consider server load on your server and theirs as if their servers get too many simultaneous requests from your site they might see it as spamming or hacking of some sort.

So my best suggestion would be to try something similar to the swear filter on forums... like how they make * represent anything.... here's some pseudocode to ponder:

<?php
$scandir = website_to_scan
function.scan {
where * = anything
check directory for ***
}
loop scan(scandir);
if match is found{
echo result
}
?>

I also found something similar to what you want but using ftp.... not sure how it works...?

http://www.go4expert.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2348

[Tomm]

That would take a painfully long time and if you run it on shared hosting you'll probially get a error about max exection time.

[QuickScriptz]

@Tomm - Way to state the obvious dude But you got any better ideas

[Blinger1]

you will need the numbers 0-9 aswell

[Splinter]

Well I dont really understand you but to find a file in a dir use something like this....

<?php

function findfile($var) {

$path = "/path/to/dir";
$handle = opendir($path);
$check = readdir($path.$var);

foreach($check) {
if(strstr($check, $var) {
echo "File exists";
} else  {
return "File dosent exist";
}
}
}
?>