Selecting a folder on local machine

[duffman_09]

I'm a bit of a newbie and I had a question,

I set up an intranet and for a certain script I need a way for the
user to select a specific folder on their machine. Is there any way
to do this with a dialog box? If there is not, is there some way to
have the user select a file in a folder and have the script remove the
file part. Like if a user select a file such as
SERVER/folder/hello.gif, it would change it to just SERVER/folder/

Thanks!

[Mordecai]

I made a script which uploaded but also had a link to the file on the local hard drive. So, I made this javascript function:
<script>
function getPath(which) {
document.send.filepath.value = which.value;
}
</script>

It sets the value for "filepath" (a hidden field) in form "send" to the value of the file search. Otherwise, there's no way to check what the file path is, as it only sends the name.

Hope this helps. You'll have to parse filepath later, though.

[duffman_09]

Thanks for the help!

Unfortunately, I'm not much of a javascript person so I'm unsure about how to use this. Anyone have an example?

[Mordecai]

<script>
function getPath(which) {
document.send.filepath.value = which.value;
}
</script>
<form name="send" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="send.php">
<input name="userfile" type="file"onChange="getPath(this);"><br>
<input type="hidden" name="filepath">
<form type="submit" value="Send">
</form>

And in send.php (the script it sends to):
$filepath = ereg_replace("$userfile_name","",$_POST["filepath"]);

That will strip the name out of the filepath, and leave only the path.

[duffman_09]

Great!! It worked!

Thanks a million!