I needed a way to include a bunch of files into my scripts without typing include "file"; each and every time I added something new to the folder so I came up with the below code which may be helpful to some:



It's rather small and simple. Basically, we specify a directory to open and then open it for reading with @opendir($path_to_includes); The next step is to create an array $files = array(); then loop through the directory with while($file = readdir($dir_handle)). While looping, we place each file we run across in the array $files[] = "$file"; and then include them in our script with include "$file";

May not be the best way to go sometimes but can be very useful to those who don't want to retype include all the time.

Thx for your addition

If I understand this correctly (I'm not a php expert..), it will open all includefiles and echo them all under eachother.

But what would then be the point of having multiple include files instead of one big one?

I might be wrong ofcourse, but I;m trying to get the idea behind it

You usually don't make one big class file for every action of your web site. You have one for processing forms, errors, mysql database functions etc. May be easier to just copy and paste this code into your scripts rather then including every single class.

Usually, I just make one "main.inc.php" file that contains my "connect.inc.php", "functions.inc.php", etc.

But I can see some situations where this, too, would be useful.

Thanks for adding this tutorial. I will be sure to try this one out.