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Re: randomly sorting files in php [message #180579 is a reply to message #180578]

Fri, 01 March 2013 04:45

Jerry Stuckle
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On 2/28/2013 8:49 PM, Cal Dershowitz wrote:
> Hello ng,
>
> I've got a working localhost and a couple php scripts that run so far,
> so I wanted to see what types of things I can do and cannot do. This is
> by no means clear to me to me now.
>
> What I have is a collection of my own music files that I have put in the
> path of where localhost is looking for things; with my default install,
> that is /var/www.
>
> I wrote a bash script to export the files off my mp3 player, because
> neither my gf nor I who bought these things can figure how to make them
> play randomly. Yes we have achieved a certain age, where determination
> makes up for a lot.
>
> $ cat music1.sh
> #!/bin/bash
>
> set -e
> FROM='CCE0-705F'
> DIR='music1'
> mkdir -p $DIR
> cp $FROM/*.wma $DIR/
> cp $FROM/*.mp3 $DIR/
> cd $DIR
> ls -l
> exit 0
> $
>
> So does php have a way to do this that is as simple as it might be in
> perl, for example?

Sure, you *can* do it in PHP. But if you have a working bash script,
why reinvent the wheel? Especially since it sounds like you don't know
much about PHP.

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		randomly sorting files in php By: Cal Dershowitz on Fri, 01 March 2013 01:49
		Re: randomly sorting files in php By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 01 March 2013 04:45
		Re: randomly sorting files in php By: Cal Dershowitz on Fri, 01 March 2013 06:23
		Re: randomly sorting files in php By: David Robley on Fri, 01 March 2013 06:54
		Re: randomly sorting files in php By: Cal Dershowitz on Mon, 04 March 2013 02:59
		getting perl and php to talk to each other, was Re: randomly sorting files in php By: Cal Dershowitz on Tue, 05 March 2013 09:19
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other, was Re: randomly sorting files in php By: M. Strobel on Tue, 05 March 2013 18:43
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other, was Re: randomly sorting files in php By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 05 March 2013 19:20
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Ben Morrow on Tue, 05 March 2013 22:06
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 05 March 2013 23:20
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Ben Morrow on Tue, 05 March 2013 23:59
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 06 March 2013 01:01
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 06 March 2013 01:08
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 07 March 2013 06:37
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Ben Morrow on Thu, 07 March 2013 06:57
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 07 March 2013 08:52
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 07 March 2013 13:17
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 14 March 2013 10:41
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 14 March 2013 11:14
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 14 March 2013 12:06
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Jrgen Exner on Thu, 14 March 2013 11:18
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Scott Johnson on Thu, 14 March 2013 12:38
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Ben Morrow on Thu, 07 March 2013 14:25
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 07 March 2013 13:14
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Wed, 06 March 2013 01:08
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 07 March 2013 06:53
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: M. Strobel on Thu, 07 March 2013 08:46
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: David Robley on Thu, 07 March 2013 11:13
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Peter H. Coffin on Thu, 07 March 2013 13:32
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: SwissCheese on Thu, 07 March 2013 11:28
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Ben Morrow on Thu, 07 March 2013 14:33
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 14 March 2013 09:16
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 14 March 2013 10:28
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: SwissCheese on Thu, 14 March 2013 10:51
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 18 March 2013 11:54
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: SwissCheese on Tue, 19 March 2013 00:23
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: alexd[1] on Thu, 07 March 2013 19:09
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Henry Law on Thu, 07 March 2013 20:09
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 14 March 2013 09:23
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 07 March 2013 20:43
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Alastair Black on Thu, 07 March 2013 21:47
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: M. Strobel on Thu, 07 March 2013 22:11
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Alastair Black on Thu, 07 March 2013 22:50
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 08 March 2013 00:45
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 14 March 2013 09:19
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 14 March 2013 11:55
		where to put the binaries was Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 14 March 2013 10:11
		Re: where to put the binaries was Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 14 March 2013 11:12
		Re: where to put the binaries was Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 14 March 2013 12:04
		Re: randomly sorting files in php By: Captain Paralytic on Mon, 04 March 2013 10:45
		Re: randomly sorting files in php By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 14 March 2013 10:39

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