auto look up of pdf files in dir

eaglestuo

I'm a newbe to web development, using frontpage as tool.

I need to be able to look up a construction detail that is a PDF file in a detail dircetory on server. We have an intranet that our people in the field log onto and look up these details. I would like to have a search box on a form that would open this PDF when it is type and button pushed to search.

The file structures are STD-DET-0000 thru 0999.

Thanks for you help

Installer

Something like this should work:

$search_dir = 'search/dir';
$dh = opendir($search_dir);
while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
    if (strtoupper($file) == 'STD-DET-' . $_GET['entry'] . '.PDF') {
        header('Location: http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/' . $search_dir . '/' . $file);
        exit;
    }
}

Make sure there's no HTML output before the header call.

eaglestuo

This is my first try at PHP coding, here is a copy of the code I'm trying to use.

<?php
<head>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<title>Construction Details</title>
</head>

<h2><i><font size="7" color="#0000FF">Construction Details</font></i></h2>

<p>Welcome to the Construction detail area. Below is a input field and button to
search and view construction details for the installation and construction of our
towers.</p>

	<p>

	</a></p>
	<p>Use the form below to search for detail drawing documents in the 
	Details Directory containing specific details for construction. The 
	search engine will display a PDF file by the detail number; if there is 
	no matching document, then a message saying &quot;No Match Found&quot; will be 
	shown, otherwise too see all of the listing of details you can push the 
	&quot;Browse&quot; button or go to the Construction page by pushing the &quot;Up&quot; 
	button. </p>

<p>All detail files names start with STD-DET-</p>
<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--" onSubmit="location.href='derived/nortbots.htm';return false;" webbot-onSubmit language="JavaScript" name="FrontPage_Form1">
<input TYPE="hidden" NAME="VTI-GROUP" VALUE="0">
<p>
 <input type="text" name="PDF_ID" size="20"><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"><input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B2"></p>
$search_dir = "m:/Engineering/Details/"; $dh = opendir($search_dir); while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false)
{
if (strtoupper($file) == 'STD-DET-' . $GET['PDF_ID'] . '.PDF') {
header('Location: http://' . $SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/' . $search_dir . '/' . $file);
exit;
}
}
</form>
<h2> </h2>
<h2> <a href="../Details"><img border="0" id="img13" src="button31.jpg" height="20" width="100" alt="Browse" fp-style="fp-btn: Soft Capsule 6" fp-title="Browse" onmouseover="FP_swapImg(1,0,/id/'img13',/url/'button32.jpg')" onmouseout="FP_swapImg(0,0,/id/'img13',/url/'button31.jpg')" onmousedown="FP_swapImg(1,0,/id/'img13',/url/'button33.jpg')" onmouseup="FP_swapImg(0,0,/id/'img13',/url/'button32.jpg')"></a>    
To go the detail directory</h2>
<h2> <a href="products.htm"><img border="0" id="img11" src="button17.jpg" height="20" width="100" alt="Up" onmouseover="FP_swapImg(1,0,/id/'img11',/url/'button18.jpg')" onmouseout="FP_swapImg(0,0,/id/'img11',/url/'button17.jpg')" onmousedown="FP_swapImg(1,0,/id/'img11',/url/'button19.jpg')" onmouseup="FP_swapImg(0,0,/id/'img11',/url/'button18.jpg')" fp-style="fp-btn: Soft Capsule 6; fp-orig: 0" fp-title="Up"></a>    
To go up to the structural details of connection page</h2>
<h2> </h2>
<h2> </h2>
<blockquote>
<dl>
<dd>
<br>
</dd>
</dl>
</blockquote>
<h5> </h5>
<p> </p>
<hr>
<h5>Revised: .</h5>

</body>

</html>
?>

Installer

I think your best bet is to find a good tutorial, book or online, and learn the basics of PHP, without frontpage at first.