CD Drive

[bmodi]

I'm a newbie at PHP....and I would like to be able to browse the contents of my CD drive (but only if a CD is the drive). Here is the code that i used in an ASP page....
<%@Language=JScript%>
<%
var fso = new ActiveXObject(&quot;Scripting.FileSystemObject&quot;
function getDrvInfo(drvPath, id)
{
var drv = fso.GetDrive(fso.GetDriveName(drvPath));
var info = new Array();
if (drv.IsReady) {
info[0] = &quot;<a href=\&quot;browse.asp?vol=&quot;+id+&quot;>&quot; + drv.VolumeName + &quot;</a>&quot;;
info[1] = drv.TotalSize / 1024 + &quot; Kb&quot;;
info[2] = drv.FreeSpace / 1024 + &quot; Kb&quot;;
}
else {
info[0] = &quot;Not Ready!&quot;;
info[1] = &quot;N/A&quot;;
info[2] = &quot;N/A&quot;;
}
return info;
}

var vol = new Array();
// Load the 3 CD Drives....
vol[0] = getDrvInfo(&quot;E:&quot;, 1);
vol[1] = getDrvInfo(&quot;F:&quot;, 2);
vol[2] = getDrvInfo(&quot;G:&quot;, 3);
%>

However I cannot get this type of functionality with PHP...is it possible?

Thanx in Advance,
Bhavik Modi

 

[stakadush]

can you post your php code?

 

[mcvdmvs]

It is not possible with PHP to do client side tasks. The only browse stuff of a local file system comes from HTML, when u want to upload files.
U are using activeX in the above example, in PHP u need to use activeX, Flash or JavaScript to do that. mcvdmvs
-- &quot;It never hurts to help&quot; -- Eek the Cat

 

[bmodi]

I am NOT trying to browse the contents of the client's CD-ROM drive...I am trying to browse the contents of the CD-ROM on the server.

Here is the code that does browsing....(Assumes that the cd drive is loaded).

<?php
$path = &quot;&quot;;
$vol = urldecode($HTTP_GET_VARS[&quot;vol&quot;]);
// Convert the &quot;volume&quot; to logical drive
if ($vol == 1) {
$path = &quot;E:&quot;;
}
else if ($vol == 2) {
$path = &quot;F:&quot;;
}
else if ($vol == 3) {
$path = &quot;G:&quot;;
}
else {
// Invalid volume...only have 3 drives
header(&quot;location: error.php&quot;
exit;
}

$dir = $HTTP_GET_VARS[&quot;dir&quot;];
$dir = urldecode(&quot;${dir}&quot;
$path = &quot;${path}${dir}&quot;;

// Sub Folders Array
$childFolders = array();
// Array of files in the directory
$childFiles = array();

$d = opendir($path);
while ($file_name = readdir($d)) {
if ($file_name != &quot;.&quot; && $file_name != &quot;..&quot {
$entryName = &quot;${path}${file_name}&quot;;
if (is_dir($entryName)) {
// Add the entry to the folders array
$encoded_name = urldecode(&quot;${dir}${file_name}/&quot;
$childFolders[count($childFolders)] = ${encoded_name}&quot;;
}
else if (is_file($entryName)) {
// Add the entry to the files array
$encoded_name = urldecode(&quot;${dir}${file_name}&quot;
$childFiles[count($childFiles)] = &quot;${encoded_name}&quot;;
}
}
}
closedir($d);
?>

Bhavik Modi

 

[stakadush]

as far as i can tell it's impossible to change drives in php. i couldn't find any information regarding drive letters.
when using the

pathinfo

function you can see that it doesn't return a drive letter. only a path.
if i come across something i'll post it here. (-: