making lists alphabetical

**mohamoud** · 03-14-2006, 06:05 PM

I use the following script to scan a folder to look for .flv and creat a playlist the problem is that the list is not alphabetical. Here is the coding i use. Here is an example http://video.somplanet.com/

PHP Code:


			
<?php

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// the variables you have to set
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

// width of the video
$width = 320;

// height of the video
$height = 240;

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// rest of the php part 
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

// autoscanning the flv directory
@$d = dir("flv");
if ($d) { 
    while($entry=$d->read()) {  
        $entry = preg_replace("/ /","%20",$entry);
        $pos = strpos(strtolower($entry), ".flv");
        if (!($pos === false)) {  
            $files[] = "flv/".$entry; 
        } 
    }
    $d->close();
}

// getting the file from the url
if ($_GET['file']) { $file = $_GET['file']; } else { $file = 1; }

// extracting the name of the video
$p1 = strrpos($files[$file-1],"/") + 1;
$p2 = strpos($files[$file-1],".flv");
$name = substr($files[$file-1],$p1,($p2-$p1));

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// displaying the html page
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
<head>
<title>FLV Player Playlist</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />


<!-- Stye Sheet -->
<style type="text/css">
  body { background-color: #eeeeee; font:10px/16px verdana; color: black; } 
  a { color: black; }
  a:hover { color: #cc0000; }
  div { margin:20px; }
  h1 { margin-left:30px; }
</style>


</head>
<body>


<!-- the flv movie name -->
<div id="name">
    <h1><?=$name?></h1>
</div>


<!-- the flvplayer -->
<div id="player">
    <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="flvplayer.swf?file=<?=$files[$file-1]?>" 
        width="<?=$width?>" height="<?=$height?>" wmode="transparent">
          <param name="movie" value="flvplayer.swf?file=<?=$files[$file-1]?>" />
          <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
    </object>
</div>


<!-- the navigation -->
<div id="nav">
    <ul>
    <? // php loop for printing all the links
    for ($i=0; $i<=sizeof($files)-1; $i++) {
        $p1 = strrpos($files[$i],"/") + 1;
        $p2 = strpos($files[$i],".flv");
        $name = substr($files[$i],$p1,($p2-$p1));
        echo "        <li><a href=\"flvplayer.php?file=".($i+1)."\">".$name."</a></li>\n";
    } ?>
    </ul>
</div>


</body>
</html>

**vangogh** · 03-15-2006, 12:57 AM

You can try running sort(); on your array before displaying it.

**mohamoud** · 03-15-2006, 06:58 PM

I am lost

I would i use the sort function. I am new to php

**vangogh** · 03-15-2006, 11:36 PM

I'm not quite sure what you're asking. sort() will sort the array in alphabetical order so if you add the code:

sort($files);

before the for loop in your code above it will place all of the values in the $files array in alphabetical order like you want. Let me know if that works or if you need more help.

**mohamoud** · 03-16-2006, 06:33 PM

It makes the list alphabetical. But it plays the wrong video.

**vangogh** · 03-16-2006, 11:23 PM

Sorry. I didn't see that you were using the array in your code for the flvplayer. Where did you add the sort() code? I think it just needs to be before the flvplayer code.

Try putting it much closer to the top just before:

// getting the file from the url
if ($_GET['file']) { $file = $_GET['file']; } else { $file = 1; }

and see if that works.

**mohamoud** · 03-17-2006, 03:32 PM

It worked.

**vangogh** · 03-17-2006, 05:58 PM

Cool. I just checked the page and it's looking good. Glad it all worked out.