glob - scan folder for php news article files

Question

I have a news overview page, and a folder of php files I would like to individually include. Rather than manually including each one into my overview page, I thought I would use php to scan the folder for php files, and print them out as an include statement.

I have the following code:

<?php $articles = glob("/assets/news/form/*.php"); ?>
<?php
if(count($articles)) {
  natcasesort($articles);
  foreach($articles as $article) {
  ?>
      <?php include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/overview/$article"); ?>

<?php
    }} else {
      echo "Sorry, no articles to display!";
    }
?>

I get no syntax with this, but I do not receive any output. Just a blank space where the articles should be.

The output I am wanting is something like this:

<?php include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/overview/1.php"); ?>
<?php include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/overview/2.php"); ?>
<?php include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/overview/3.php"); ?>
<?php include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/overview/4.php"); ?>
<?php include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/overview/5.php"); ?>
<?php include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/overview/6.php"); ?>

Ultimately I am wanting to write a php function that scans a folder in ROOT/assets/news/form/ for all php files, and include all the files with the same name from the folder ROOT/assets/news/overview.

My news overview page is currently in /news/index.php

Can anyone help me out with this?

Answer 1

Here, give this a whirl: (TESTED)

Tested on my server using absolute path.

<?php

// path to .php files must be absolute path
// example: /server/user/f/fred/forms/*.php
// May have to modify your path if it's not absolute

// You may have to use this, if doesn't work
// $articles = glob("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/forms/*.php");
$articles = glob("/assets/news/forms/*.php");

if(count($articles)) {
  natcasesort($articles);
  // rsort($articles); // use rsort for descending order

foreach($articles as $article) {
    $article = basename($article);

// You may have to use this, if doesn't work
// include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/forms/$article");
include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/forms/$article");

      }

    }

else {

echo "Sorry, no articles.";

}

?>

Answer 2

Change:

foreach($articles as $article) {

to:

foreach($articles as $article) {
    $article = basename($article);

to strip off the directory prefix in the result of glob().