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copied!<p><em>New answer after OP edited his question</em></p> <p>From your edited question, I understand you want to dynamically populate a <code>SelectBox</code> element on an HTML webpage with the files found in a certain directory for <code>option value</code>. The values are supposed to be split by dash, underscore and number to provide the <code>option name</code>, e.g.</p> <pre><code>Directory with Files > SelectBox Options filename1.txt > value: filename1.txt, text: Filename 1 file_name2.txt > value: filename1.txt, text: File Name 2 file-name3.txt > value: filename1.txt, text: File Name 3 </code></pre> <p>Based from the code I gave in my other answer, you could achieve this with the <code>DirectoryIterator</code> like this:</p> <pre><code>$config = array(); $dir = new DirectoryIterator('.'); foreach($dir as $item) { if($item->isFile()) { $fileName = $item->getFilename(); // turn dashes and underscores to spaces $longFileName = str_replace(array('-', '_'), ' ', $fileName); // prefix numbers with space $longFileName = preg_replace('/(\d+)/', ' $1', $fileName); // add to array $config[] = array('short' => $filename, 'long' => $longFilename); } } </code></pre> <p>However, since filenames in a directory are unique, you could also use this as an array:</p> <pre><code>$config[$filename] => $longFilename; </code></pre> <p>when building the config array. The short filename will form the key of the array then and then you can build your selectbox like this:</p> <pre><code>foreach($config as $short => $long) { printf( '<option value="%s">%s</option>' , $short, $long); } </code></pre> <p>Alternatively, use the Iterator to just create an array of filenames and do the conversion to long file names when creating the Selectbox options, e.g. in the <code>foreach</code> loop above. In fact, you could build the entire SelectBox right from the iterator instead of building the array first, e.g.</p> <pre><code>$dir = new DirectoryIterator('.'); foreach($dir as $item) { if($item->isFile()) { $fileName = $item->getFilename(); $longFileName = str_replace(array('-', '_'), ' ', $fileName); $longFileName = preg_replace('/(\d+)/', ' $1', $fileName); printf( '<option value="%s">%s</option>' , $fileName, $longFileName); } } </code></pre> <p>Hope that's what your're looking for. I strongly suggest having a look at the chapter titled <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Language Reference in the PHP Manual</a> if you got no or very little experience with PHP so far. There is also a free online book at <a href="http://www.tuxradar.com/practicalphp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.tuxradar.com/practicalphp</a></p>

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