{"id":1580,"date":"2014-05-04T09:16:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T09:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:35:06","slug":"getdirectoryandfilesinfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/04\/getdirectoryandfilesinfo\/","title":{"rendered":"getDirectoryAndFilesInfo"},"content":{"rendered":"

An expanded version of the getDirectory<\/a> call, but also uses the file name as a key to more information in the database. This is useful for describing media such as video, sound, and pictures. It’s part of my MediaService class in AMFPHP.<\/p>\n

To try it out:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. go to\u00a0http:\/\/as3.actionscriptdude.com\/amfphp\/browser\/<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Click on MediaService<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. click on getDirectoryAndFilesInfo<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
  4. for the\u00a0dir_<\/em> parameter, type in public\/vids<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. click on\u00a0Submit Query<\/em><\/li>\n
  6. You should see a list of objects containing information about each video file<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    <\/a>
    \nThis is used in the     Video Playlist <\/a>example.<\/p>\n

    PHP Source:<\/p>\n

    \ngetDirectoryAndFilesInfo($dir_)\n{\n  \/\/ create an array to hold directory list\n  $result = array();\n  $directory=\"..\/..\/\" . $dir_;\n  result = array();\n  \/\/ create a handler for the directory\n  $handler = opendir($directory);\n  \/\/do not allow if directory contains \"..\" SECURITY BREACH!\n  $breach = strpos($dir_,\"..\");\n  if ($breach === false\u00a0 ) {\n\n    \/\/ keep going until all files in directory have been read\n    while ($file = readdir($handler)) {\n      if ($file != '.' && $file != '..')\n      {\n        $path_parts = pathinfo($file);\n        $ext=strtolower($path_parts[\"extension\"]);\n        $fObj=array();\n        $fObj[\"name\"]=$file;\n        $fObj[\"size\"]= filesize($directory . \"\/\" . $file);\n        $fObj[\"extension\"]=$ext;\n        $fObj[\"isdir\"]=is_dir($directory . \"\/\" . $file);\n\n        if ($fObj[\"isdir\"] || $ext==\"flv\" || $ext==\"jpg\" || $ext==\"mp3\" || $ext==\"png\")\n        {\n\n          $sql2=\"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM comments WHERE file= '$file'\";\n          $query2 = mysql_query($sql2);\n          $getrow2 =\u00a0 mysql_fetch_array($query2);\n          $fObj[\"commentcount\"]=$getrow2[0];\n\n          $sql=\"SELECT *\u00a0 FROM filedetails WHERE filename= '\" . $file . \"'\";\n          $query = mysql_query($sql);\n          $getrow =\u00a0 mysql_fetch_array($query);\n          $fObj[\"lookup\"] = $getrow ;\n\n          array_push($result,$fObj);\n        }\n      }\n    }\n\n    \/\/ tidy up: close the handler\n    closedir($handler);\n  }\n  return $result;\n}\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    An expanded version of the getDirectory call, but also uses the file name as a key to more information in the database. This is useful for describing media such as video, sound, and pictures. It’s part of my MediaService class in AMFPHP. To try it out: go to\u00a0http:\/\/as3.actionscriptdude.com\/amfphp\/browser\/ Click on MediaService click on getDirectoryAndFilesInfo for … Continue reading “getDirectoryAndFilesInfo”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-php","tag-amfphp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolio.arnoldbiffna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}