browse the server?

[bdee1]

i am building an interface to my movie database. the database lives on my htpc and feeds my movie selection software (cinemar mainlobby/dvdlobby www.cinemaronline.com).

all my movies are stored on hard drives on my htpc. also the htpc serves this php interface that i am building. it is a windows xp system running IIS.

what i am working on is the ability to add movies to the database from the web interface. the beginning part is a simple form where you fill out the movie title, rating, description and so on.

but the hard part is when i have to specify the path to the movie file.

for instance "Wedding Crashers" is on the HTPC at D:\movies\wedding crashers\video_ts.ifo

and thats how it is stored in the database. it has to be for mainlobby to work right.

so what i need to do is when adding a movie from the web interface have some way of browsing the server (HTPC) hard drives for movie files.

i always store my movies in the same folder (D:\movies) but the subfolders can vary. so if it helps i can make a virtual directory in IIS to the D:\movies so that the movies folder would be accessible under the webroot.

is this something thats possible to do using php?

[LordShryku]

Yep.

[man]opendir[/man]
[man]readdir[/man]

[bdee1]

ok so that kind of gets me what i want but not quite. i am looking for something that is as close as possible to the html file field.

SO i coudl list all the files/folders in a specific folder inside a select box or something but then when i want to enter one of those subfolders i woudl have to submit the form and refresh the page in order to display the items in the subfolder right?

[bpat1434]

Yes. Or you could use JavaScript to make it so you don't have to refresh the page. I'm not 100% sure how you can do it, but I know it is possible to update forms with JavaScript based upon form data, and info received from PHP.

~Brett

[bdee1]

ok well i will have to fiddle with this and see what i can come up with - at least i have a starting point now. thanks!