Serving files through a PHP script

twilson

I was wondering if anyone knows a way to lock down files, and only serve them to people if my PHP script deems them worthy?

Example:

I have files for users:

~/public_html/files/ddickman/blah.txt
~/public_html/files/tpooper/blah.txt
~/public_html/files/fscrewball/blah.txt

That I need available through my site, but I do not want them to be able to browse the directories. I DO want my script to list out the person's own files, and allow them to pick one and serve it up (preferrably letting them just download it).

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Tom

sivasankari_kv

Does Your site has a login , if yes associate a directory to every login , say ddickman is logging in
attach him to ur base directory path "~/public/html/files/"
which will result in "~/public-html/files/ddickman"

then u can change to that paricular directory using
dir("~/public-html/files/ddickman")

php allows running command line commands thru system() function , just run a ls , take each and every file , and href to that particular file
Hope this works

twilson

That doesn't exactly solve my problem. These people know what the other directories are going to be called. They could easily browse to the other's directories. So, I need to .htaccess them out of it, or chmod the directories so they can't browse them.

But I need my script to serve up the files. Has anyone ever done this? I know it can be done........

Thanks,
Tom

xblue

there's another thread on this not far away:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10237096