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PHP File Handling with PHP Basic File Handling Reading Files

Gurveer Singh
Gurveer Singh
9,004 Points
Posted by Gurveer Singh
Gurveer Singh
9,004 Points

can i get help with reading data from php file?

If the filename contains the string "fun", display the name of the file surrounded by H3 tags.

HINT: strpos will return 0 if the result is found at the beginning of the file. Returns FALSE if the needle was not found.

index.php 
<?php
//add code here
$files = scandir('example');
if (srtpos($files, 'fun') != false) {
  echo '<h3>  <h3>';
}

2 Answers

Jeffrey Howard
Jeffrey Howard
18,173 Points
Jeffrey Howard
Jeffrey Howard
18,173 Points

Hi! You are almost there, just a few important items that needs to be added and fixed in order to complete this task.

  1. You need a foreach loop to properly list out the files in the $files array.

  2. Add your if statement inside the foreach loop but first the comparison operator should be typed with a double equal sign. For example !== false.

  3. Variable $file should be placed in between the H3 tags.

The final product should look like the code below:

//add code here
$files = scandir('example');

foreach ($files as $file) {
    if (strpos($file, 'fun') !== false ) {
      echo '<h3>' . $file . '</h3>';
    }
}

Hope this helps! Good Luck and happy coding!

Gurveer Singh
Gurveer Singh
9,004 Points
Gurveer Singh
Gurveer Singh
9,004 Points

Thankyou very much, Jeff