checking existence of file start from name “sample” using php

Question

Could someone help me with how I can check the existance of files which starts with any name like sample1.pdf , sample12.pdf in a particular folder using PHP? Below is my code for checking a single file.

<html>
<?php
if(file_exists("properties/".$owner."/".$property."/sample1.pdf") )
?>
</html>

Answer 1

The PHP function glob ( here ) will provide you an array of files that match. So you can do the following:

$files = glob("properties/{$owner}/{$property}/sample*.pdf");

This will then return an array of files within the "properties/{$owner}/{$property}/" directory that start with "sample" and have an extension of .pdf

You can then loop through the files and do what you need

//Check if there are any files and there were not any FATAL errors
if (count($files) > 0 && $files !== FALSE) {
    foreach ($files as $file) {
        //Do something here
    }
} else {
    //There were no matching files
}

Hope this helps

checking existence of file start from name “sample” using php

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checking existence of file start from name “sample” using php

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1 answers

solution1 1 ACCPTED 2012-11-21 10:50:34

solution1
1 ACCPTED 2012-11-21 10:50:34