i keep coming across numerous errors when using the scripts on a windows server, most of them work but a few dont. I've checked the errata there's nothing there.

chapter 10's nav_dir.php

its meant to give a list of folders and files in them but i get

Traversing docs.....

Warning: opendir(docs) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Invalid argument in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\test\nav_dir.php on line 7
can't open docs

<?php
//nav_dir.php
    $default_dir = "docs";
    function traverse_dir($dir) {
    echo "Traversing $dir..... <br>";
    chdir($dir);
    if(!($dp = opendir($dir))) die ("can't open $dir.");

    while($file = readdir($dp)) {
    if(is_dir($file)) {
    if($file != '.' && $file != '..') {
    echo "$file<br>";
    traverse_dir("$dir/$file");
    chdir($dir);
    }
    }
    else echo "$file<br>";
    }
    closedir($dp);
    }
    traverse_dir($default_dir);
 ?>

thats the code

i've notice that i get an extra error if i use / in the $default_dir = "/docs";

this must be something to do with windows platform filing system.
i've tried turning magic quotes off in the php.ini and this didnt help

any suggestions?

Well, I wouldn't expect this to work on ANY machine because of these two adjacent lines:

chdir($dir);
if(!($dp = opendir($dir))) die ("can't open $dir.");

opendir() looks for $dir to be a subdir of the current working directory... but you change the working diretory with chdir() on the previous line. That means if $dir is "docs", that function will only work if you have a directory named docs/docs beneath the current working directory, and even then it will traverse the nested docs, not the outer one.


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

Here's a slightly modified version of your original script that shows how to properly deal with recursive calls, chdir, and opendir:

Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/