Question

I am often tasked with making specialty websites for the professors at my university. Recently a professor asked me to create a site with nothing except links to files. I told him that would be easy because as long as the site didn’t include an index all the file links would display automagically (yeah I did). To my dismay the university servers do not do what I expected them to do, and although I know it is possible to implement this listing of files for the web site in question, I do not have the authority to do it.

I am in the process of making a simple PHP script that lists files and directories (and their associated download links) but I am wondering if something like this already exists that is perhaps already all polished up and ready to go. Does anyone know of such an application that I can just drop into place? Glitter is not required, but I would consider a simple one or a pretty one.

Oh yeah, it needs to be in PHP or ColdFusion

My server’s is running ColdFusion 7,0,2,142559 and PHP 4.3.9

Answer 1

There are lots of examples on the web. Personally I wouldn’t bother finding a library etc, as the code is pretty small to implement. Try this (an example I have searched for, but I have used in the past).

// open this directory 
$myDirectory = opendir(".");

// get each entry
while($entryName = readdir($myDirectory)) {
    $dirArray[] = $entryName;
}

// close directory
closedir($myDirectory);

//  count elements in array
$indexCount = count($dirArray);
Print ("$indexCount files<br>\n");

// sort 'em
sort($dirArray);

// print 'em
print("<TABLE border=1 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0 class=whitelinks>\n");
print("<TR><TH>Filename</TH><th>Filetype</th><th>Filesize</th></TR>\n");
// loop through the array of files and print them all
for($index=0; $index < $indexCount; $index++) {
        if (substr("$dirArray[$index]", 0, 1) != "."){ // don't list hidden files
        print("<TR><TD><a href=\"$dirArray[$index]\">$dirArray[$index]</a></td>");
        print("<td>");
        print(filetype($dirArray[$index]));
        print("</td>");
        print("<td>");
        print(filesize($dirArray[$index]));
        print("</td>");
        print("</TR>\n");
    }
}
print("</TABLE>\n");