# Filename to array
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/filename-to-array/5273
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 6, 2002, 8:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/filename-to-array/5273 "2002-09-06T08:24:00Z")
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### Author:  [@ahoo75](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ahoo75)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2002, 8:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/filename-to-array/5273/1 "2002-09-06T08:24:00Z")
anyone can advice how i can dynamically read all the filenames in a directory and put them into an array. thank you for you help.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2002, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/filename-to-array/5273/2 "2002-09-06T13:12:31Z")
You’ll need PHP.
Generate a string with all the filenames in php (don’t really know how, but it shouldn’t be too hard…).
the output should look something like this.
&file1=filename&file2=filename2&file3=filename3…
then use loadvars in flash to get the values in your movie
that’s all I know (and I know it’s not much)…
Stanley
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2002, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/filename-to-array/5273/3 "2002-09-06T13:28:15Z")
well you could edit the text file ur self…posibly put a variable at the start defining the length and then just use load vars to load it up onto the array
To load it up u would have like a for next loop going
```php
for(i=0;i>=;++i){
myArray* = eval("var"+1);
}
```
And yeah that would load it up.
And with that u could still have ur php script setting the text file…just have the first var something like varNumber increment every time you add an entry and stuff like that… 🙂