I am building my own file management system with the ideas below:

File Management System
-----------------------
Admin file upload manager
> Allow any files to be uploaded
> Upload form has pulldown of registered users (pulldown associated wi
+th a database)
>> One file can be uploaded at a time and will be uploaded to the user
+'s folder as chosen above ^

Member file manager
> Login which redirects to specific folder (cookie authentication)
> They are brought to another script which scans all files in their di
+rectory and:
>> Puts them all into a hash/array by given file type
>> Records the file name, the date it was uploaded and file size
>> The script prints these out on the screen in order by given file ty
+pe and date (newest date on top).  These will be links to the particu
+lar file so they can download any file they want.

Example:
It would print all images on top, then say zip files, then text, etc. 
+ Each category would be setup in chronological order.

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Now, I can do almost all of this with scripts I already wrote. I have a file upload script I've written along with many login scripts.

The question I have is, how do I do the file reading so it slurps up all file names and file data in their folder?

Thanks.

In reply to file management system by Anonymous Monk

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