Open/read multiple subfolders and read all files in them, problem! (php + domxml)

I'm trying to code a simple CMS of my own based on XML for my senior project. I'm halfway done. I'm currently stuck on this one function where I need to open and read multiple folders, then read all the files in them so I can put them in my domxml_open_file() function like domxml_open_file($file) - I have different folders such as Housing_Stuff, College_Stuff etc. and .xml files named after their IDs in them such as 1.xml, 2.xml. I tried various methods to read multiple folders and stuff but can't get it to work and it is frustrating me to an extreme. Here are the codes:

session_start();

function printNow($array){
	if(count($array) <= 1){
		for ($i = 0; $i<count($array); $i++){
			$node = $array[$i];
			$value = $node->get_content();
		}
		return $value;
	} 
	
}

function folderlist(){
  $nowDir = './admin/';
  $ignoreDir[] = '.';
  $ignoreDir[] = '..';
  $ignoreDir[] = 'xmldata';
  $ignoreDir[] = 'images';
  $ignoreDir[] = 'backup';
  $ignoreDir[] = 'jscripts';
   if (is_dir($nowDir)){
       if ($dh = opendir($nowDir)){
           while (($folder = readdir($dh)) !== false){
               if (!(array_search($folder,$ignoreDir) > -1)){
                 if (filetype($nowDir . $folder) == "dir"){
                       $dirList[$nowDir . $folder]['name'] = $folder;
                   }
               }
           }
           closedir($dh);
       }
   }
return($dirList);
}

$folders = folderlist();
  foreach ($folders as $folder){
    $folderName = $folder['name'];
		 }

$read = opendir("./admin/$folderName/");

	$fileCount = 0;
while ($file = readdir($read) and $fileCount < 5){
	if (eregi("^\\.\\.?$", $file)) {
		continue;
	}

$open = "./admin/$folderName/".$file;
$xml = domxml_open_file($open);

 // Pull the stuff we need and build the links 

 $identify = $xml->root();

 $id = $identify->get_attribute("id");

 $d0cument = $xml->root();
 $hl_array = d0cument->get_elements_by_tagname("headline");
 $hline = printNow($hl_array);

 $d0cument = $xml->root();
 $sd_array = $d0cument->get_elements_by_tagname("summ");
 $sd = printNow($sd_array);

 $d0cument = $xml->root();
 $aa_array = $d0cument->get_elements_by_tagname("author");
 $aa = printNow($aa_array);

 $d0cument = $xml->root();
 $ada_array = $d0cument->get_elements_by_tagname("date");
 $ada = printNow($ada_array);

$fileCount++;

}

<center><table width="625" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td height="25" background="<?echo$sitetheme;?>/images/orta.gif"><b><h3><? echo $lang['article'];?></b></h3></font>
</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</center>
<?

echo '<div id="div">';
echo '<ul id="sidebarnav_Main">';
echo "<li><a href=article.php?id=".$id.">".$ada." > ".$folderName." > ".$hline."</a></li></ul><div>";

?>

PHP:

The output of this is:

> College_Stuff >

with the link not having any of the properties I want it to have such as $id etc. And the $folderName function apparently just gets the name of one folder, when there are 2 other folders it should be taking the names of. When I change the $folderName with an actual folder name such as Housing_Stuff for these 2 lines:

$read = opendir("./admin/$folderName/");

$open = "./admin/$folderName/".$file;

The functions work fine and the script pulls the properties of the file but it only pulls 2.xml, and there is another .xml file in that folder named 1-1242743475.xml. I'm totally stuck and in need of help. Hopefully I was able to explain the problem well enough.

 

I would approach that completely different.
Using simple process.

// each folder with its own variable name.
$collegstuff = "folder/Collge_stuff.txt";
$housingstuff = "folder/Housing_stuff.txt";
etc.

then open them each.
$fp = fopen($collegstuff, "r") or die("Couldn't open $collegstuff");
etc.

and then turn the text in those files into variables.
$collegestuff_content =" (the files contents)" ;
etc.

look at the fopen etc commands.
Pull the text in from each file and convert it to a PHP variable.
then you can place the entire text of each file nicely by using its variable name like

echo $collegestuff_contents;

in the area of files, folders, or webspages ypu want it displayed.

 

Thanks for the suggestion.

I thought about that, however, then I'll have to do some major editing on admin panel as well for category adding function.