Selecting a directory

[andsoff]

I'm new to PHP and am trying to list the files in a directory selected by the user (on their local disk).
I've managed to list the files in a hard coded directory using "readdir" etc, but I can't find a way to allow the user to browse for a directory. The nearest I can get is to use "input type=file" which lets them browse through directories to select a file, but this returns the filename without its full path. Presumably the path is (or can be) stored in a variable somewhere ?
Thanks.

[bradgrafelman]

PHP = server-side

A user's directory = client-side

The two shall never meet.

What I mean to say is you can't run scripts on a user's hard drive. Sure, maybe there's some far-out way of using VBScript, ActiveX, or some CLIENT-SIDE coding language like those to retrieve a directory listing and POST it to your PHP script, but other than that (as far as I can think of) you're not going to get info about a user's hard drive.