PhP and Favorites

[puttie]

I want to make a script that gets all my favorite links (from the map favorites) and places them in a database. My question is: How do i get the url and urlname from the .url files in the favorites directory when i am using php?????

Can anybody help me with this?

Thanks

[cokeman]

You could write a script to read in the contents of the favorites directory, and if the current file is a .url file, read it in with file() to get each line in an array. You would then make a pass through that array and look for a line that begins with "URL=", and you could use substr to get the rest of the line -- that would give you the URL. The filename (minus the .url part) would give you the title/name associated with the URL.

Does that make sense?

[TWTCommish]

Something like this...

  $path = "/path/to/folder/";
  $dir = opendir($path);
    while ($file = readdir($dir)) {
      if ($file != "." && $file != ".." && substr($file, -3, 3) == "url") { 
        printf('<b>%s</b><br>', $file);
      }
    }

That should print out each .url file in the directory you specify -- obviously from that point you can change the printf() line to whatever you want to manipulate things.

[cokeman]

Here's something along the lines of what I was trying to explain earlier:

<?
$handle=opendir('.');
while (false!==($file = readdir($handle))) {
  if ($file != "." && $file != ".." && strtolower(substr($file,-4)) == ".url") {  
    
    $name = substr($file, 0, strlen($file)-4);
    $fcontents = file($file);
    while (list ($line_num, $line) = each ($fcontents)) {
      
      if (substr($line, 0, 4) == "URL=") {
        $url = substr($line, 4);
        break;
      }
    }
    echo "<b>name:</b> $name<br><b>URL:</b> $url<br><br>\n";
  }
}
closedir($handle);
?>

[TWTCommish]

Mwahaha, beat you by 3 minutes.

I ran your code and got a bunch of errors that looked like this:

Warning: Variable passed to each() is not an array or object in c:\phpdev\www\testing.php on line 16

Got one for each favorite place...

[cokeman]

I don't have PHP installed on my windows machine, so I did all that on a Unix box, and I uploaded all those .url files into the same folder that the test php file was in, and it looked like it worked fine. I don't know if that could have anything to do with it..

I don't see what the error could be though.. I'm reading in $fcontents with file(), and that is supposed to return the array.. I don't see how "variable passed to each() is not an array" could happen -- unless line 16 refers to another each()