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Posted by Lars Eighner on 10/09/07 17:09
In our last episode, <xn0fc8zbu1j3b5e002@news.individual.net>, the lovely
and talented Jeff Gaines broadcast on comp.lang.php:
> I have spent the day learning how to use Zend Development Environment. I
> can now produce a list of files in a directory, filtered by extension, and
> apparently clickable. Unfortunately clicking on them in a browser doesn't
> take me to the file link.
> I have found examples for clickable URL's, FTP links and mailto addresses
> but not files. I am managing to produce output like this:
><a href="file:///E:/wwwroot/Test/NewListing.php">NewListing.php</a>
><br>
><a href="file:///E:/wwwroot/Test/Public DNS.htm">Public DNS.htm</a>
><br>
><a href="file:///E:/wwwroot/Test/TestList.php">TestList.php</a>
><br>
><a href="file:///E:/wwwroot/Test/Usenet.htm">Usenet.htm</a>
> They look fine in a browser (running on Localhost) but I get nowhere
> clicking them. If I copy the output from Zend and paste it into an editor
> then save it as an html file the links all work fine so the output seems
> to be in the correct format.
> The examples I found all work so I am coming to the conclusion that either
> clickable file links are not possible or I am missing something obvious.
> Can anybody give me a steer on this? I want clickable file links rather
> than just navigating to a folder so I can control what files are shown
> (i.e. just file.html not file.html and the file files directory).
I sugget you try to navigate to the files with your browser alone. Bookmark
one of them and then see if your corresponding link looks exactly like the
bookmark.
Although I haven't the foggiest idea how permissions in Windows work (if at
all), if your browser cannot navigate to a file, it's almost a sure bet that
it cannot follow a link to the same file.
It seems barely possible that a Windows browser (i.e. IE) has a weird
interpretation of file urls, such as, maybe, requiring backslashes in file
path part.
It may be that files with spaces require url encoding (ie. <space> = %20 ).
That obviously is not your problem now because you are failing on files
without spaces in their names.
Anyway, when you see what your browser thinks a bookmark to the file should
look like, you know what a link it can follow should look like.
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