how to list files on server?

[zipadee]

I want to have a page on my website that lists the files in a certain directory on my web server. How do I go about doing that? My php knowledge is limited

 

thanks.

[MadTechie]

heres a simple example from the manual opendir

<?php
$dir = "/etc/php5/";

// Open a known directory, and proceed to read its contents
if (is_dir($dir)) {
    if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
        while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
            echo "filename: $file : filetype: " . filetype($dir . $file) . "\n";
        }
        closedir($dh);
    }
}
?>

[zipadee]

thanks!

 

this is probably a dumb question but.... how do I get rid of the links to the directory and only link to the files within it?

 

also, when I upload a file with space in its name, the link in the list won't work. how do I stop that happening?

 

 

[DarkWater]

urlencode()

[MadTechie]

try this (untested)

(my boss is near )

<?php
$dir = "/etc/php5/";

// Open a known directory, and proceed to read its contents
if (is_dir($dir)) {
    if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
        while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false)
        {
            if($file != "." || $file != "..")
            {
                 $file = urlencode($file);
                 echo "filename: $file : <br>\n";
            }
        }
        closedir($dh);
    }
}
?>

[zipadee]

erm....it doesn't seem to work. but that could just be the way i'm implementing it :S

 

i found this code in a tutorial:

 

<?php 

$folder = "articles/";
$handle = opendir($folder);

# Making an array containing the files in the current directory:
while ($file = readdir($handle))
{
    $files[] = $file;
}
closedir($handle);

#echo the files
foreach ($files as $file) {
    echo "<a href=$folder$file>$file</a>"."<br />";
}
?>

 

is that a legitimate way of doing it too?

 

sorry, i'm not very good at this

[MadTechie]

try this

 

<?php 

$folder = "articles/";

// Open a known directory, and proceed to read its contents
if (is_dir($folder )) {
    if ($dh = opendir($folder)) {
        while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false)
        {
            if($file != "." || $file != "..")
            {
                 $ufile = urlencode($file);
                 echo "<a href='".$folder."/".$ufile."'>$file</a>"."<br />";
            }
        }
        closedir($dh);
    }
}
?>

 

[947740]

You could use scandir().

 

*Not Tested

<?php
$folder = "something/"
$dir = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/".$folder;
$files = scandir($dir);
foreach($files as $number => $filename) {

   if(filetype($filename) == "dir") {
   
   }
   else {
   echo "<a href='".$dir.$filename."'>$filename</a><br />";
   }
}?>