PHP Wizards question (or referral to good bb)

Factual Questions
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I am new to PHP/MYSQL. I’ve set up a simple content management system which stores a little info about, and URLs to, pdf files in directories. Now I want to do a one-time bulk update where I don’t have to enter the info for each file through the CMS. I would appreciate any help or a recommendation for a good php bulletin board where I can post my question.

Basically, I want to loop through a home directory which has a number of subdirectories, loop through the file names within each subdirectory and load those base file names into an existing database. I think I use the readdr function to get the file names, but I’m not sure about the basic mechanics.

(Then I will parse out the file names into other fields using mysql. The file names include a date, such as 20090515, so I think I can inject that pretty easily into my date field and create the URLs at the same time.)

Again, any help or a referral would be great!

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Okay, I figured it out. Turned out to be two rounds of readdir functions, one for the subdirectories into an array, and then a for each loop with a nested readdir function for the file names spitting out to a second array. I could then perform an sql INSERT on that array.

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My new favorite site for programming questions is Stack Overflow.

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Thanks, friedo. I’ll check that out.