Setting file attributes to hidden

[sonnyb]

Is it possible to use PHP to set a file downloaded (from a Linux server) to have a 'hidden' attribute on Windows systems? We have an internal app at our company for putting together presentations (they download as a zip), but it requires asset folders & autorun files, and it would be nice if we could have these set to hide by default when they are downloaded.

 

My only thinking was that it may be possible using exec() in some way?

Thanks!

[Axeia]

Going by http://www.astahost.com/info.php/how-hide-files-xp_t2872.html

I'd say

exec( "attrib +h ".$pathToFile );

[sonnyb]

Thanks, I tried that but it didn't work, sadly. Not getting any errors (except when the $pathtofile is not in quotes, in which case I get "divide by zero" warnings), but they are still visible when it has downloaded.

[tang]

http://uk3.php.net/function.exec

 

exec( "attrib +h ".$pathToFile, $output );
var_dump($output);

 

[Axeia]

How the hell did you end up with division by zero with strings?

 

And what the poster above did, that should show you any errors in case something goes wrong with the command itself.