Posted by Hywel Jenkins on 05/18/06 19:55

Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote:
> SW Monkey wrote:
>> Is there a web interface that I could setup to view out 8,000 PDF
>> files? I dont need to search for anything internally in the PDF, just
>> by the filename.
>
> Sounds like a perfect job for AJAX and a small amount of server-side
> scripting. It's about the right level of complexity for a learning
> exercise.
>
> You can't do it purely in Flash, you're still going to need the
> server-side code that returns partial directory sets.
>
> Next question is what you're hosting it on, and what scripting language
> your web server offers. PHP, most likely.

I agree. AJAX would do this very well, and you could easily fall-back
to simple form/submit for browsers that don't agree with your AJAX code.

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Hywel
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