Uploading folders

[psycovic23]

I've been thinking about making a folder uploader for a while for my image gallery, and I was reading through the uploading page on php.net. Here
What my idea would have been is to have the user input the folder directory. From there, you could throw every file in the directory into an array, and then process it from there, but the thing that I don't know how to do is this part:

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="_URL_" method="post">
 <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="30000" />
 Send this file: <input name="userfile" type="file" />
 <input type="submit" value="Send File" />
</form>

How would you assign the names to each file all in the same page? I only know how to assign the <input name> when I hit the submit button...but not when they're on the same page. Any ideas?

[devinemke]

the browser (at least the ones i've tested) will not allow you to upload a folder, only indivdual files. you could either have multilple file uploads on a single form or allow users to upload a ZIP file and unzip them on the server using PHP's zip functions.

[psycovic23]

But why can you not input the folder, put all the files into an array, and then send it through as individual files through this upload process?

[Sgarissta]

Originally posted by psycovic23
But why can you not input the folder, put all the files into an array, and then send it through as individual files through this upload process?

Using an ActiveX control you might be able to. But Javascript typically doesn't have access to read files on a client's machine without having VERY loose security settings on the user's browser.