Hang tight everyone. I'm not ignoring you. I'm systematically trying all your suggestions. So far with little success. My continued failure is probably due to my novice understanding of PHP.
Charles: I thought the break would work too, but $file never evaluates to an empty string, even when I try to exclude the '.' and '..'. The array concept looks promising. I was trying that earlier, wasn't defining the array correctly. My loop kept spelling out the file names one letter at a time. Pat Richard: Tried the counter. Seemed like it should work but if there are no files, the output echoes "There are no files in the folder" twice, while the loop is counting. When there are files, I get the text string and file names. Maybe I have the counter in the wrong place in the script. Not sure. Steven Olson: Your idea about sending the output to a file sounds promising. I just have to figure out how to do that so I can test the concept. Do you mean send it to an intermediary php page to count the lines? Ummm, how do I count the line? Stephen Caudill: You suggest testing to see if there is a directory. I don't plan on deleting the directory when no files are present. Will this test still work even if the directory exists but is empty? Thanks, Perry Gerenday Webmaster / Visual Communications Visteon, Nashville Glass Plant 615.350.7656 > -----Original Message----- > From: Galatek Webmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 11:01 AM > To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com > Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] PHP: determine if a directory is empty > > > just add a line to check for an empty string in $file and > break the loop > after printing the message you want to print. > > i.e. > > $continue = true; /* Set a BOOLEAN variable to keep the > loop going as long as there are files */ > if ($handle = opendir('./ssgi/')) { > while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { > if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { > echo "<a href=\"ssgi/$file\">$file</a><br />\n"; > $continue = true; > } elseif ($file == "") { > echo "There are no files in this folder"; > $continue = false; > } > if ($continue == false) { break; } > } > closedir($handle); > } > > This should work well ( I use a similar system on one of my projects ) > > another option is to push the results into an array ( push(@array, > $file); ) and check to see if the first array item ( $array[0] ) is > empty or not when printing the information > this requires using the function to return the array and > printing it out > with a seperate block of code. > > Charles R King > ( Webmaster GalatekInc.com ) > Web Design / Programming. C-omputerSolutions.com > > > Gerenday, Perry (P.) wrote: > > >I banged my head against this all day yesterday without > success. I have > >a file upload page for a client that also displays the files > in their > >directory folder using PHP. Displaying the files is no > problem. I loop > >through the directory like this: > > > > if ($handle = opendir('./ssgi/')) { > > while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { > > if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { > > echo "<a href=\"ssgi/$file\">$file</a><br />\n"; > > } > > } > > closedir($handle); > > } > > > >However, when the directory is empty, I want to > >display the text string, "There are no files in this folder", so the > >client recognizes the folder is empty and not just failing > to show their > >files. > >For the life of me, I can't find a way to determine if the > folder is empty. > >If there were a "directory size" function that would help, > but all I can > >find > >is filesize. I've tried checking if $file == false or zero > but there is > >always a > >dot (.) left in the folder which is used to move to the next > directory > >level. > >Also, while using the loop method, eventually, the $file > will always equal > >false, > >that's what brings the script to an end. > >Can anybody lead me in the right direction here? What am I > missing. 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