Question

I hope the following isn’t too tricky.

I have a simple html button. Now I want to open a filechooser as soon as a user clicks on this button.

I do this like the following:

$('.button').click(function()
{
        $('<input type="file"/>').attr('value');
});

This opens a filechooser, but I want this file-chooser to only show files on the server, not on the client. I’ve searched the net but couldn’t find an adequate solution so far.

Any proposals are welcome 🙂

Answer 1

Impossible, sorry. You’d need to use server side code to make a tool that allows the end user to browse the server’s files.

The file input is used for the end user to choose file(s) on their machine. It has no knowledge of the server’s files.