CLEAN Dropdown list of directories

[veeps]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I am simply trying to create a dropdown list of other directories. Using:
[php]
//SIMPLY as a precurser test, and I UNDERSTAND that this scans directories AND files both, & simply echoes back
$DirList = scandir(’…/ParentDir’);
print_r ($DirList);
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…I get the following:
Array ( [0] => . [1] => … [2] => .DS_Store [3] => Gallery01 [4] => Gallery02 [5] => Gallery03 [6] => Test_1 )
But, what I eventually want is simply: Gallery01 =>Gallery02 => Gallery03 (without the annoying Mac file, and the “.”, “…” files.
To test my “filter”, I tried:
[php]
$DirList = scandir(’…/path/GalleryImages/’);//this is actually a dir of image dirs
foreach ($DirList as $subdir) {
if(is_dir($subdir)) {
echo “$subdir
”;
}
}
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The results were echoed as:
“.”
“…”
I filtered out something. But, the target image directories were missing.

If I could figure out how to properly filter out something that doesn’t typically have a suffix (.jpg,tiff, etc…since I’m dealing with directories), I think I know how to build a dropdown menu with the proper results. Can anybody help? Thanks in advance.

[veeps]

Figured it out!..I think. Thanks fir nuthin’ - haha!

So there’s a pathinfo() function that will return the contents in an array

[ul][li]dirname[/li]
[li]basename - If it’s a folder (name and extenstion) or just dirname again[/li]
[li]exension - (filename extension if file)[/li][/ul]

SO, although this isn’t my end product, here’s what I’ve come up with, to produce clean directory results
[php]

<?php function buildDirList($ParentDir) { //to be extracted as an include soon if($contents = @ scandir($ParentDir)) { //to avoid ugly errors $found = array(); foreach ($contents as $item) { //here's the call for the php pathinfo() function $DirInfo = pathinfo($item); //if it has a dirname and no extension, do this: if(array_key_exists('dirname',$DirInfo) && !array_key_exists('extension',$DirInfo)) { $found[] = $item; } } if ($found) { natcasesort($found); foreach($found as $dirname) { echo "$dirname
"; //soon to be echoed instead as } } } } [/php] I hope this helps somebody who, like me, only seems to find people looking for the same extension parameters for file extension, and can't find any info on actual directories.