Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 04/25/07 12:11

Jon Slaughter wrote:
> 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.
>
> Even if it was a little shell program to change the directory(sorta like
> dos) would be much better than having to enter in the directory name by
> hand.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
>

Hi, Jon,

You should be able to do it with the php-gtk package.

I haven't actually used this package, but I did investigate it for
another project and it looked ok.

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