Question

I’m trying to create an Intranet page that looks up all pdf documents in a UNC path and the returns them in a list as hyperlinks that opens in a new window. I’m nearly there however the following code displays the FULL UNC path – My question how can I display only the Filename (preferably without the .pdf extension too). I’ve experimented with the basename function but can’t seem to get the right result.

//path to Network Share
$uncpath = "//myserver/adirectory/personnel/";
//get all files with a .pdf extension.
$files = glob($uncpath . "*.pdf");
//print each file name
foreach ($files as $file) 
{
echo "<a target=_blank href='File:///$file'>$file</a><br>"; 
}

The links work fine it just the display text shows //myserver/adirectory/personnel/document.pdf rather than just document. Note the above code was taken from another example I found whilst researching. If there’s a whole new better way then I’m open to suggestions.

Answer 1

Modify your code like this:

<?
$uncpath = "//myserver/adirectory/personnel/";
//get all files with a .pdf extension.
$files = glob($uncpath . "*.pdf");
//print each file name
foreach ($files as $file) 
{
echo "<a target=_blank href='File:///$file'>".basename($file)."</a><br>"; 
}

?>