Parsing multiple html / text files - html

Question

Hi I wanted help in a situation where I have a folder called 'slides' and I have multiple text / html files in it like:
slide1.html
slide2.html
slide3.html
and so on.....
The structure of these files is like this:
<h2>Title of the Slide</h2>
<p><img src="tick_icon.jpg" width="227" height="227" alt="icon" longdesc="http://longdescription" /></p>
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3 properties Title, Image and the Description. One in each line.
I have some 10 - 12 files like this. I wanted a function which will loop and parse all these files in the folder called 'slides' and return values of each line (of the 3 lines) as variable so that I can place them within my code for layout.

Answer 1

You could use
foreach(glob('slides/*.html') as $fileName) {
$fname = basename( $fileName );
$curArr = file($fname);
$slides[$fname ]['title'] = $curArr[0];
$slides[$fname ]['image-links'] = $curArr[1];
$slides[$fname ]['description'] = $curArr[2];
}
and you will end up with one big $slides array which will have the filenames as keys and the 3 sub keys, title, image-links, and description. This is assuming that each of the "slides" have the extension .html and that the content of each slide is definitively on 3 lines.

Answer 2

What language would you want this in? HTML is not a programming language. You can also not accomplish this in Javascript as it has no filesystem-handling routines, and would almost certainly not be allowed to poke around the server's directory structure in any case.
You could accomplish this in PHP using something like:
<?php
$filelist = glob("/path/to/files/slide*.html");
foreach($filelist as $file) {
echo <<<EOL
$file<br />
EOL
}
?>