Dynamically build links to documents

[groovygarden]

Hiya,

My department has a server with a lot of documents stored on it - I want to create a front end to this so that users can navigate through the directories to find the document they want. This is easy enough, but the problem is the structure of the directories changes quite frequently and so I want to avoid hard coding links to directories/files. Is there a way I can read the directory structure of the server and build links dynamically whenever the site is accessed.

I hope I've explained this OK!

Any help much appreciated - thanks

 

[Sleidia]

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[groovygarden]

Interested!!!!

 

[Sleidia]

<?php
if ($handle = opendir('/path/to/files')) {
echo &quot;Directory handle: $handle\n&quot;;
echo &quot;Files:\n&quot;;

while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
echo &quot;$file\n&quot;;
}

closedir($handle);
}
?>

Taken from:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.readdir.php

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[CliveC]

From a command propmt in the base directory type
DIR/b *. > DIRLIST.TXT
This will produce a file DIRLIST.TXT in the base directory. Now write a program in the language of your choice reading each record in DIRLIST.TXT and building links.

HTH,
Clive

 

[Wullie]

Hi all,

What wrong with just using the directory listings of the server?

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