[Resolved] Upload entire contents of a directory

[hoggel]

Hello,

I'm looking to find a method of uploading the entire contents of a directory without having to individually select each file in a seperate input type=file.

Does anybody know a means to open a 'browse' dialog and select a directory/folder which can then be passed as a post variable. Once I get this done I am confident I can use system commands to get a list of the files and then simply do a loop to upload each file.

The hard part is getting that directory name (I can't trust my users to type the directory name themselves).

Any advice? Or does anybody have any other opinions as to how to do this? All advice would be much appreciated.

[AstroTeg]

HTML + forms will not allow you to do this (for security). You'd have to do something with FTP and that would mean the user would need to use a dedicated FTP client or be given instructions to use IE to upload.

[hoggel]

Decided to give up on this and make the user upload a zipped archive instead. FIgure there is more chance of them knowing how to use zip than sitting patiently and adding 20 files.

My thanks for your comment AstroTeg. It was pretty much as I had feared.

' That is All '

[AstroTeg]

A zip file is actually a good way of doing it. Hadn't thought about that. You could have PHP unzip the file and save the contents however you like.