Question

I currently have a very simple intranet that we are using for some basic company documentation. The site has a navigation bar across the top of the page that has drop down lists containing links to all the documents.

At present, if someone needs to add a new document, I have to manually go in and create a list item with the link to that document, in order for it to be added to the drop down.

Is there is a way I can save myself a job, using a script that can auto create these list items based on the folder contents?

If there is a PHP option, this would be ideal as this is what I am most familiar with.

Answer 1

Using glob() you can easily get a list of files in a directory and output them:

$doc_dir = '/path/to/docs';
foreach(glob("$doc_dir/*") as $file) {
  echo "<li><a href='$doc_dir/$file'>$file</a></li>", PHP_EOL;
}