if u wud use perl... it wud

neodeepak — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:12:16 +0000

if u wud use perl...

it wud be..

print "system(ls -l)";

Are you pointing to the

greg — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:03:49 +0000

Are you pointing to the correct DIR?

What exactly did you put as per pr0gr4mm3rs code:

<?php
/* change the directory to the location with the PowerPoint files */
$files = scandir('powerpoints');
?>

And what is the DIR (folder) where the powerpoint files are?

Try running the script on a

pr0gr4mm3r — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:49:29 +0000

Try running the script on a local filesystem and see if it helps.

Here's the Error

UK_Dave — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:25:47 +0000

Here's the Error Log:

Warning: scandir(files) [function.scandir]: failed to open dir: No error in \\nas24ent\domains\h\mydomain.org\user\htdocs\files\myarray.php on line 4

Warning: scandir() [function.scandir]: (errno 0): No error in \\nas24ent\domains\h\mydomain.org\user\htdocs\files\myarray.php on line 4

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in \\nas24ent\domains\h\mydomain.org\user\htdocs\files\myarray.php on line 7

Warning: sort() expects parameter 1 to be array, boolean given in \\nas24ent\domains\h\mydomain.org\user\htdocs\files\myarray.php on line 14

Thanks Shaggy, but

UK_Dave — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:36:10 +0000

Thanks Shaggy, but unfortunately my hosting company says it does not allow indexing on its servers. That's one reason for this request. Currently I have provided an FTP link to the folder, but it's very slow to show up - presumably due to icon drawing by browsers, and is not therefore very satisfactory.

I'll post an error log for pr0gr4mm3r soon.

Dave.

Using Apache and lazy like

Shaggy — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:56:25 +0000

Using Apache and lazy like me?

In the config, 'AllowIndexes' on the directory you are storing your PPT files in.
Apache will just show a directory listing of the files in the dir to the http client

No scripting necessary. If you aren't using Apache, I'm sure whatever other web server you are using has the equivalent.

Cheers,
Shaggy

I tried the original script

pr0gr4mm3r — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:36:23 +0000

I tried the original script and got an error

Can you post the error?

Sorry guys, but not being

UK_Dave — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:00:36 +0000

Sorry guys, but not being too familiar with PHP I'm lost with this.

I need to know exactly what to do here - I'm OK saving the file as a .php, but Greg's variation has confused me. I tried the original script and got an error, so I need a complete script, I need to know exactly what to edit to make it detect the files, and I need to know where is the best place to upload it.

Thanks!

Dave.

Thanks Greg, but can I ask

UK_Dave — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:47:21 +0000

Thanks Greg, but can I ask you to put the whole script together? I'm not into writing them - just using them - and that very rarely.

Thanks,

Dave.

One note I would add would

Greg K — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:25:51 +0000

One note I would add would be to change the check for the file extension:

$aryExt = array('PPT','PPS'); // Place towards top of file

$strExt = strtoupper(substr($value,strrpos($value,'.')+1));
if (in_array($aryExt,$strExt) || $value==$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) {
   unset($files[$field]);
}

This accomplishes three things:

Prevents a file like "testppt" (no extension) from matching.
Makes it easy to take this code and use it in other directories for other file types. As the note says, put the first part towards the top of the file for easier finding and/or changing.
If you were to use this to list out .php files, the code will also prevent the listing of itself. (generally, something like this would just be index.php, but I had it use the actual script name in case you save it as something else

-Greg