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    <p>I'm very new to PHP and would like some help creating a menu from files contained in a directory. As I add files i'd like the menu to automatically add an item.</p> <p>The files in the directory are .htm files and the naming convention is year, then month separated by an underscore i.e, 2013_6.htm (June 2013)</p> <p>I would like to be able to read the files and then create a menu from those.</p> <p>I have managed to create a sorted array of the files, like this (which works fine):</p> <pre><code>$dir = "$cal_path"; $dh = opendir($dir); while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) { if ($filename != "." &amp;&amp; $filename != ".."){ $files[] = $filename; } } sort($files); </code></pre> <p>How do I now get this array of files into a menu item list that I can then style with CSS, something like this, where xxxx is the year from the filename and yy is the month from the file name.</p> <pre><code>$cal_menu = &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="$base_url/calendar_view?year=xxxx&amp;month=yy"&gt;June 2013&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;etc&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;etc&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; </code></pre> <p>I created an array of months and corresponding month names</p> <pre><code>$CalendarMonth = array("1"=&gt;"January","2"=&gt;"February","3"=&gt;"March","4"=&gt;"April","5"=&gt;"May","6"=&gt;"June","7"=&gt;"July","8"=&gt;"August","9"=&gt;"September","10"=&gt;"October","11"=&gt;"November","12"=&gt;"December"); </code></pre> <p>I hope I have explained my problem properly. Many thanks in advance.</p>
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