CptAwesome — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:27:54 +0000

<?
function get_folder_contents($folder,$type)
	{
	if ($handle = opendir($folder))
		{
		while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle)))
			{
			if(ereg(".+\.$type",$file))
				{
				$file = str_replace(".$type","",$file);
				$list[] = "$file";
				}
			}
		closedir($handle);
		}
	}
?>

'
usage:

<?
$list = get_folder_contents('flashgames/','swf');
while(list($k,$v) = each($list))
	{
	echo "<a href=\"game.php?game=$v\">$v</a>";
	}
?>

The only drawback would be the inability to get the width and height that way, but that can be fixed by naming the files like bmx.550.400.swf, with that you could:

<?
$list = get_folder_contents('flashgames/','swf');
while(list($k,$v) = each($list))
	{
	$varray = explode('.',$v);
	echo "<a href=\"game.php?game=$v&w=$varray[1]&h=$varray[2]\">$v</a>";
	}
?>

The other option with naming them like that, is you could slim it to one variable, and then do the explode('.') in the game.php file

WuLabsWuTecH — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:06:22 +0000

how would you go about doing it automatically? i thought that I had seen a script that would do something like this, and you just put all the swf files into a directory. then you could add descriptions and make them searchable...

CptAwesome — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:15:23 +0000

Wow, that would take yeah, forever, and there is frighteningly easy solution. The following into a file named game.php will do the trick

<?
//Step 1: This is the list of games, each is seperated with a | and omit the .swf when listing them.
$listofgames = "game1filename|game2filename|game3filename";
$list = explode("|",$listofgames);
//Step 1 end


// Step 2: Check if the width and height are set, if not, set a default
if(is_numeric($_GET['w'])){
	$width = $_GET['w'];
}else{
	$width = 640;	//default
}
if(is_numeric($_GET['h'])){
	$height = $_GET['h'];
}else{
	$height = 480;	//default;
}

// Step 3: Verify the game requested exists, output it if it does, and error if it doesn't
if(in_array($_GET['game'],$list))
	{
	$movie = $_GET['game'];
	echo "<object width=".$width." height=".$height.">\n";
	echo "<param name=\"movie\" value=\"$movie.swf\">\n";
	echo "<embed src=\".$movie.swf\" width=".$width." height=".$height.">\n";
	echo "</embed>\n";
	echo "</object>\n";
	}
else
	{
	echo "Game not in our database, sorry";
	}

//Step 4: Thank yourself for not spending a month hardcoding a million HTML pages.
?>

All links to the games would be written as such:
game.php?game=gamename&w=400&h=550

there are ways to do this automatically as well.

Roo — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 06:25:09 +0000

I use Swishmax, not Flash, but it lets you load movies one on top of another...I'm sure Flash itself must allow you to 'layer' .swf's the same way?