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hi everyone, In the last 4 weeks I've spent A LOT of time with Larry's book and Lynda.com videos (pertaining to PHP). I want to thank Larry for making such a clear and linear guide for PHP beginners. But anyways, I'm working on a small script and I want to list the contents of a directory, make them into hyperlinks, and then edit those hyperlinks to look pretty (I.e. not show an ugly super long path name), then limit the number files echoed back to the browser. I was thinking about using this: <?php $path = "/full/path/to/files"; if ($handle = opendir($path)) { while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { $files .= '<a href="'.$file.'">'.$file.'</a>'; } } closedir($handle); } ?> or this: <?php $sub = ($_GET['dir']); $path = 'enter/your/directory/here/'; $path = $path . "$sub"; $dh = opendir($path); $i=1; while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) { if($file != "." && $file != "..") { if (substr($file, -4, -3) =="."){ echo "$i. $file <br />"; }else{ echo "$i. <a href='?dir=$sub/$file'>$file</a><br />"; } $i++; } } closedir($dh); ?> But I dont want to list the files like this: C:/example/example2/Hello.pdf I want to edit the variable. Is that possible? To make it say something as simple as "Hello." I want to limit the amount of files listed as well. For example: only list the first 5 files, or last 5, etc. Is there a function or some kind of parameter for that? I appreciate any help or push in the right direction. Thanks