Checking all files

[Cam]

Hey,

OK, this is what I want. I want to check every file on my DocumentRoot, including files nested in directories, for a certain variable to define that it should be a part of a menu and which menu it is to be a part of. I could do it no worries if it was in one directory and I could probably even figure it out now but I'm hoping there is an easier way than a whole lot of dynamic calls to dir()

Any ideas?

Thanks

[trickie]

What form is the variable?

I can give you a simple recursive directory function, but what exactely do you want to do?

Maybe i'm just dumb...

[Cam]

Maybe i'm just dumb...

Nar, I'm shocking at explaining.

Say this is my directory layout

D:\www\root\
-D:\www\root\db\
-D:\www\root\phpMyAdmin\
--D:\www\root\phpMyAdmin\CVS\
--D:\www\root\phpMyAdmin\lang\
-D:\www\root\images\
-D:\www\root\objects\
-D:\www\root\forum\
--D:\www\root\forum\admin\
--D:\www\root\forum\contrib
-D:\www\root\errors\
-D:\www\root\CSS\
-D:\www\root\admin\
--D:\www\root\admin\auth

I want to browse all of those directories and whatever subdirectories there might be so I can scan each file (I will probably find a more efficient way of doing this [maybe md5()]) to determine if it should include a link in a menu system I'm creating for a site.

That easier to understand?

[trickie]

something like this...

<?php
function scan_dir($path, &$menuItemList)
{
    if ($handle = opendir($path)) 
    {
        while (false !== ($filename = readdir($handle))) 
        {
            if ($filename!="." && $filename!=".." )
            {
                if (is_file($path.'/'.$filename))
                {
                    //scan file - probably a function
                    //add to $menuItemList if needed
                }
                if (is_dir($path.'/'.$filename))
                {
                    scan_dir($path.'/'.$filename, $menuItemList);
                }
                
            }
        }
    
        closedir($handle); 
    }
}
?>