Generate html file with directory listing

ict46

Hi everybody,

I don´t want this to sound like a request but I really need the knowledge of the pro´s here as my coding experience is not satisfying enough for that...

I would need a php script that reads out the content of a directory and then writes a simple html file with clickable links to these files in another writeable directory. I was playing around with all those file handles but it was not too successful.

If somebody here could help me out that would be real cool...

Kind regards
Arne

Moonglobe

can't help right now, no use too tired, if someone hasn't helped you by morning[edit]Pacific Daylight Time[/edit] PM me.....but they prob will have...

s_shrum

Might be more than what you need but I have a script that can (one of it's uses) read a directory and, with the use of templates, can output that data. Your template will define the link and the content layout.

http://mysqlcms.php

Of specific interest to you will be the DIR parameter(http://mysqlcms.shrum.net/mysqlcms.php?table=/parameters.shtml#dir). The site has documentation on the whole process and includes some of the templates that I use for my site which are generic enough for anyone to use straight out of the box.

The Source Archive and the Template Archive links in mysqlcms.shrum.net are good examples that use the DIR function...it lists the files in the specified folder and returns a nicely formatted table with the file values in them.

I also use the DIR parameter to do photo album type pages. A good example of this can be seen in my R/C Soaring area.

Note that the 'abstract' data is also a file...see the CAPTION parameter (http://mysqlcms.shrum.net/mysqlcms.php?table=/parameters.shtml#caption)for more information on how this is done.

HTH

ict46

HI,

first of all thank you all for the hints given so far.

The reason for my question is a site that can be either used online or in a downloadable offline version.
It displays lots of directories with several manuals in pdf format.
They are simply uploaded to their directories by our departments.
When you use the site online the directory output is done by simple php. But when people download the whole site structure php of course is not working on their offline computers.
So I need a script that on click from the admin panel generates a very simple listing with only the clickable links to the files and that puts that html in those directories.
And when you start the script again it should delete the old html and just replace it by the new one.

So if anybody would help me with that that would make my life much easier.... :=))

Take care
Arne

s_shrum

True...the offline copy will not function. Can't help you there.
:-(

Unfortuantely, I don't think that there exists a premade script that will handle those sorts of situations (offline AND online) as most parameters will change from machine to machine.

Hopefully someone else here knows of something.

ict46

actually it needs no parameters as I will call the html file all the time, online and offline. so i just need the script that generates the html file, nevertheless i´m still positive that I can find a way to do it..

thank you so much
arne