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#################################################################################
#																				#
#	written by benjamin ramey													#
#	bsr@rameydesign.net															#
#																				#
#	This file contains:															#
#		Functions that perform various filesystem tasks such as removing		#
#		unwanted types of files/folders from an array of files and folders		#
#		in a folder																#
#																				#
#################################################################################

############################################# FUNCTION: filesys_get_folder_tree	#
# returns: html of folder tree
# parameters: path to root folder
function filesys_get_folder_tree($path)
{
	global $_DOC_ROOT,$_SCRIPT_FOLDER;
	# variable that will hold all the HTML for the folder
	$folderhtml = '';
	# get folder contents in alphabetical order
	$folder_contents = scandir($path);
	# the url is used so that people can download/look at these files through
	# the browser, a doc_root path wouldn't work, of course
	$url = str_replace($_DOC_ROOT,"$_SCRIPT_FOLDER",$path);
	
	# one by one, set $element to a file or folder inside the passed folder
	foreach($folder_contents as $element)
	{
		# ignore current and parent folders
		if( ($element != '.') and ($element != '..') )
		{
			# make sure each is_dir call is not using cached information 
			# from last is_dir check
			clearstatcache();
			# if $element is a folder, call this function recursively and 
			# create HTML for this subfolder
			if( is_dir("$path/$element") )
			{
				$folderhtml .= "
					<div class='folder_name' id='${element}_name'
						onclick='ExpandFolder(this)'
						onmouseover='ChangeFolderNameBG(this,0)'
						onmouseout='ChangeFolderNameBG(this,1)'>
						+ $element
					</div>
					<div class='sub_folder' id='${element}_folder'>";
				$folderhtml .= filesys_get_folder_tree("$path/$element");
				$folderhtml .= "
					</div>\n\n";
			}
			else
			{
				# get the size of this file in kilobytes
				$file_size_kb = intval(filesize($path.'/'.$element) / 1024);	
				$folderhtml .= "
					+ <a href='/$url/$element'>$element</a>
						($file_size_kb Kb)<br />\n";
			}
		}
	}
	
	return $folderhtml;	
}

################################################ FUNCTION: filesys_dirs_present	#
# returns: true or false
# parameters: path to directory to inspect, pattern to match directory name
#	against
function filesys_dirs_present($path,$pattern = "/.*/")
{
	# make sure the path passed here is really a directory we can't
	# check anything but a directory, since only directory will contain
	# other directories, duh
	$handle = is_dir($path) ? opendir($path) : NULL ;
	if(empty($handle))
	{ return(NULL); }
	
	# set through each child in this directory and see if the child
	# is directory but not the parent or current directory
	# readdir returns FALSE when no children are left to inspect
	while($child = readdir($handle) and $child !== false)
	{
		# make sure each is_dir call is not using cached information 
		# from last is_dir check
		clearstatcache();
		# check if this child is directory and whether it
		# matches the user given pattern or not
		if(is_dir($path.'/'.$child)
			and ($child !== '..')
			and ($child !== '.')
			and (preg_match($pattern,$child)) )
		{
			# we can return true with the first matching folder we find
			# this is an OR operation
			return(true);
		}
	}
	
	# if we get here, no matching folders were found, so none exist
	# so we return false
	return(false);
}

######################################### FUNCTION: filesys_get_wanted_children	#
# returns: array of wanted dir children
# parameters: 1) path to directory; 2) command to remove [files,folders]
#	3) a pattern to match folder/file names against
function filesys_get_wanted_children($path,$cmd,$pattern = "/.*/")
{
	# the cmd can be passed as either all cap or not, so conform it
	# here to lower case
	$cmd = strtolower($cmd);
	
	# fill an array full of the directory children, but only, of course if 
	# the passed path is really to a directory
	$children = is_dir($path) ? scandir($path) : NULL ;
	if(empty($children))
	{ return(NULL); }
	
	# remove the current and parent directories
	$children = preg_grep("/^\.{1,2}$/",$children,PREG_GREP_INVERT);
    # get only the children that match the pattern
    $children = preg_grep($pattern,$children);
	
	# if files are to be removed, remove them
	if($cmd == 'files')
	{
		foreach($children as $child)
		{
			if(!is_dir($path.'/'.$child))
			{ array_splice($children,array_search($child,$children),1); }
		}
	}
	# if folders are to be removed, remove them
	else if($cmd == 'folders')
	{
		foreach($children as $child)
		{
			if(is_dir($path.'/'.$child))
			{ array_splice($children,array_search($child,$children),1); }
		}
	}

	# return the array of directory children, free of the bad little ones
	return($children);
}

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