Creating links based on a varied number of files. 1

[milage]

Hi,

I need to write a CGI script that creates hyperlinks to files in a directory.

Say I have two files in a sub-directory "doc" on my website:

Test1.pdf
Test2.pdf

And I want to search through the directory "doc" and then create a hyperlink on the page for every file that is in the directory.

This would mean that say someone added the file
Test3.pdf this would automatically create a hyperlink for this file when the page was accessed. Rather than having to update a static html page every time or embedding the actualy links in a cgi script.

Any help on this one would be very much appreciated. I hope my description is clear enough!

From Rob

 

[goBoating]

# do the normal html content-type, HTML, HEAD, TITLE stuff

opendir(DOCS,"./docs&quot or die "Failed to open DOCS dir, $!\n";
@files = grep !/^\.\.$?/, readdir DOCS; # get all files except '.' and '..'
closedir DOCS;

# point the red part at your docs dir
$

http://www_root

= '[red]

[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.yourserver.com/some/dir/[/URL]

[/red]';
print &quot;<p>\n&quot;;
foreach $file (@files)
{
$href = $

http://www_root.$file;

print &quot;<a href=\&quot;$href\&quot;>$file</a><br>\n&quot;;
}
print &quot;</p>\n&quot;;

I have not run this, but it should be close.

HTH


keep the rudder amid ship and beware the odd typo

 

[milage]

wow, that was quick.

Haven't got it to work yet but I'm working on it.
One problem is that I won't be able to hardcode in the full root url.

Is it possible to make this just a relative url from the location of the cgi page?

Rob

 

[milage]

It works!

Thank you very very much for your help.

From Robert