opendir

Anon

this is a previous post from somebody else a year ago. it was not responded to and i am having the same problem. how can we work with directories on a different drive than the one the php files are on. thank you for your time.

$dir = "f:/";
chdir($dir);

// Open directory;
$handle = @opendir($dir) or die( "Directory \"$dir\"not found.");

The die statement kicks in. If I change dir = "c:/", it works great.

ame12

Couple of different ways. YOu can include from other paths.

$path = "f:\otherphpstuff\";
include($path + "somefile.php");

or use a virtual directory. Define a virtual with your web server and then refer to it in the URL.

header("location: somevirtualdir/somefile.php");

to redirect to the page.

Dave

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Anon

i don't think i was very clear with my question. my .php files are on the c:\ drive and i want to be able to look at the file names in a directory on the f:\ drive. there are no .php files on the f:\ drive.
opendir doesn't let me work with a directory on any drive other than the c:\ drive.
thanks again.

$myDir = opendir("f:\data");

// print the filenames in the directory
while($entry = readdir($myDir))
{
print($entry);
}