Posted by Geoff Berrow on 04/25/07 06:18

Message-ID: <_IvXh.74$tp5.61@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net> from Jon
Slaughter contained the following:

>Is there a way to get user input from a php script that doesn't have to do
>with html? I would like to ask the user(me) to input a directory(preferably
>in a gui way such as a folder selection dialog) to do some work with. Is
>this possible when running the script directly on my comp(not off a
>server(remote or local))?
>
>The script is a management thing that I'd like to create to help generate
>some html code. Essentially I want it to scan a dir(but don't want to hard
>code it) and have it generate a list of links for the files in that
>dir(which are images). Maybe even asking for a description for each.

PHP is server side scripting so there has to be a server involved. But
that can be a local server installed on your own machine.

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