how do I display the files & folders on server??

mfacer

Hey all,

I have no idea how to display folders on my webserver. I can display a list of all the FILES in a folder, but not the actual folders in the folder.... here's an example of the structure:

root

.... folder 1
.... folder 2
.... file1.htm
.... file2.htm
.... file3.htm
.... file4.htm
.... file5.htm
.... file6.htm
etc etc

So the above files are displayed using the following code:


$directory = opendir("$path");
  while($filename = readdir($directory))
{ 
	print $filename & "<BR>";

}
closedir($directory);

the above code would display like this....

.... file1.htm
.... file2.htm
.... file3.htm
.... file4.htm
.... file5.htm
.... file6.htm

but what I want is the folders to be shown as well. This way the folders can be hyperlinked so when clicked they will open in a new window and the contents of them will be displayed like above.

Is this possible??

Many thanks in advance,

Matt Facer. :p

bernouli

try this

$directory = opendir("$path");
while($filename = readdir($directory))
{
print $filename . "<BR>";

}
closedir($directory);

mfacer

that is what I have already used... that only displays the files... I want to be able to display the folders which are in the root folder.

I noticed you substituted the "&" for a "." -- thanks, that will make the file list work,...... but how do I display the names of the folders??

Cheers....

Matt.

bernouli

i have tried the code, it showed me my subdir.
check your $path, maybe there is no subdir inside the $path

mfacer

sorry, I should have said....

in my config file, I set where $path is relative to...

$path = "."

the above shows the files in the folder where the PHP code is... but if there are folders within the current folder.. I want to display them.... any further ideas?

Thanks.
Matt.

bernouli

as i mentioned, if there are sub folders within the folder, it will be shown. I see no wrongs with your codes, all i can suggest is to check again your path, and make sure if there are sub folders within it, otherwise try absolute path to it
ie
$path="/home/anything/to/be/shown";

mfacer

it works! I can see the folder names now. Not sure what I was doing wrong there!
Now what I want is to do a check to see if it is a folder, or a file.

I was thinking of doing an if statement saying

if $filename contains "." then it is a file...

otherwise it must be a folder..

what is the code which looks through a string for a certain character, in this case a "."

Thanks very much btw!

floR

Since both code snippets are the same, the only thing I can think of is file permissions. Check the ownership+permissions for the subdirs. I have no idea what PHP will show when subdirs are not viewable by nobody.nobody (typical webserver user).

bernouli

use is_file() function to determine a file
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.is-file.php

or is_dir() function to determine a directory
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.is-dir.php

mfacer

cheers guys!! The is_dir() worked a charm!!

Thanks v much!!

Now I need to find out the filetype... ie: I only want to display HTML files... I was thinking of saying:

if filetype($filename) = ".htm" or ".html" or ".shtml" etc etc
write $filename

would that work?? or is there an eaiser way of doing it?!

Many, MANY thanks!!

Matt.

bernouli

try this

if(ereg("(.*).html",$filename)) print $filename . "<BR>";

mfacer

thanks, that works!

Cheers for all the help here!!!

One more thing..(sorry to keep pestering!!!)

I want to hyperlink the $filename when it is a folder, so when the user clicks on the folder, it will show the contents of it.
I get the following error message:

"You do not have permission to do this"

I do not want to enable directory browsing, so is there a way around this? Cheers.

bernouli

change the permission then to o+x

mfacer

hi,

i changed the permissions to "execute and read" and it worked... the problem is that as there is an index.htm file in the folder, it simply opens that by default.... what I want to do is to open the folder and display the files within.

the scenario is that I display the root files... then the user clicks on a folder (all within Admin) ... the destination folder then opens, and the new file list is shown in the window.... the user can then navigate around the server, like Windows Explorer style...

any ideas?

Cheers.