chdir help with local path

Fergal_O_Hanlon

Hi Guys,

Coiuld anyone answer a question for me?

I am trying to write ftp code that will recursicely read thru the contents of a directory on a local machine and upload the entire content to the server via ftp coded in php.

I want to run the ftp from the server and am using chdir to try to change to the path on the local machine but I keep getting the err no 2 'no such fiel or directory'

Example, if the save this code in a page called test.php and browse to it I get the above error output in the browser window.

<?php
chdir('c:\Program Files');
print getcwd();
?>

Can you access a local path from a web browser like I want to do?

Thanks for help

Fergal.

dalecosp

Originally posted by Fergal O'Hanlon
Hi Guys,

Coiuld anyone answer a question for me?

I am trying to write ftp code that will recursicely read thru the contents of a directory on a local machine and upload the entire content to the server via ftp coded in php.

I want to run the ftp from the server and am using chdir to try to change to the path on the local machine but I keep getting the err no 2 'no such fiel or directory'[

Not surprising. Try a search at Google using the string "Spaces bad in file names". Many programs don't support it --- you have to work around the issue often with wildcards, etc.

<?php
chdir('c:\Program Files');
print getcwd();
?>

Maybe try something like:

<?php

$mydir="C:\\Program*Files";
chdir($mydir);
print getcwd();

?>

Can you access a local path from a web browser like I want to do?

I can, but I'm not sure whether I'm interpreting this question correctly.

Fergal_O_Hanlon

Thanks for the code:

inserted in a page called test.php and uploaded it to the server

I browse to the page and get the following:

Warning: chdir(): No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/infokus/infokus-www/webadmin/test.php on line 4
/home/infokus/infokus-www/webadmin

The print getcwd() line in your code is printing out
/home/infokus/infokus-www/webadmin ??

Any other suggestions. All help is greatly appreciated as I cannot proceed til I get this sorted. Is it a config on server?

Thanks,

Fergal.

dalecosp

Well, tell us what you wish to do.

In the first example you gave a Windows pathname. You uploaded it to a 'Nix based server and complain it can't find "C:\Program Files". That's certainly not surprising.

I guess I'm not understanding what you want this script to do. You say you want to run code from the server to grab everything from a client?

Maybe you want Kazaa..... :rolleyes:

PHP is server-side. If you want to execute code on the client, you need some other technology.