Errata

The following file has Errata pertaining to Chapter 6.

Errata.pdf

[RingerSoftware]

Why does the script hardcode the directory separator? In Windows, it's a backslash, so this code is already not portable. And the file name might need to be encoded (safe) before sending to browser. Try this instead:

define(DS, DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) ; // ... is / on nix and \ on Windows

define(BR,'<br>') ;

$dirName = DS . 'etc';

$dir = opendir($dirName);



while ( ($file = readdir($dir)) ) {

 $tempFile = $dirName . DS . $file ;

 $tempFileSafe = htmlentities($tempFile, ENT_QUOTES);

 if (is_dir($tempFile)) {

  echo "Directory: $tempFileSafe", BR; 

 } elseif (is_file($tempFile)) {

  echo "File: $tempFileSafe", BR;

 } elseif (is_link($tempFile)) {

  echo "Link: $tempFileSafe", BR;

 } else {

  echo "Unknown: $tempFileSafe", BR;

 }

}

closedir($dir);

Chris

[jeffolen4]

Chapter 6

Chris,

You are correct in all of your observations.

However the point of this sample code was to demonstrate the usage of the is_dir, is_file and is_link. I think we made the statement several times throughout the book that the code samples are not to be confused with production code. This being both from a best practices standpoint and an error handling standpoint.

Thanks,
Jeff Olen