[opendir] Local directory and files?

[Vebjorn]

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$path="images";
opendir(FP,"$path");
@innhold=readdir(FP);
closedir(FP);


foreach $dir (@innhold){
print "<img src='$path/$dir'>";
print "<br>\n";

}
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This code opens the directory "images" and displays all the images in the directory.

The output of this code can be viewed at

http://home.no.net/weebee/images/vise_bilder.cgi

Is it possible to make a similar script, which can display all the images in a local directory?


-Web

 

[Rieekan]

I'm assuming that you're wanting to open a user's local directory and not one on the web server? If so, that isn't possible using Perl, as it is a server side language and through websites does not transact with the client machine. (Websites are a disconnected solution where a request is made and answered to and communication is severed between each request.)

But on the bright side, there could be an answer for you using some type of Javascript solution.

- Rieekan

 

[Vebjorn]

Yes, that was what I was thinking of.

Will it be possible if I install an Apache server on my computer? And then put the images I want to view into one specified directory?


-web

 

[Rieekan]

Sure, that would work to show the images on your computer via a web page. Alternately, you could just make the perl script write an HTML file which you could open separately instead.

- Rieekan

 

[Vebjorn]

Thanks.

-web