I'll read this very extensive guide in segments to prevent me from forgetting anything as I'm reading. First part seems well written to me, and everyone deserves the chance to have a stab at an article no matter what their skill level!

One thing I'm going to pull you on is the use of opendir. I must admit that I used to use all those *dir functions back in my hay days as a PHP programmer. That was until I found out about the glob function. An exceedingly useful function, and so much so I even decided to write an article about it myself. You may wish to familiarise yourself with glob as it really is a powerful little function and makes reading files (and directories) a piece of cake. I suppose its syntax is in some way comparable to regex - just a lot more simplified.

Let me continue reading now Not sure I can manage it all in one go, mind you!

P.S: How big are the files? I'll more than happily increase the allowance.

__________________
The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out.