Posted by Jochem Maas on 10/01/68 11:36

Jim Moseby wrote:

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> Perhaps I misunderstand what the OP wanted. I thought he was running a
> webserver somewhere, and that he wanted his remote webserver to be able to
> grab a file listing on his local machine by just visiting a webpage there.

if you ask me it wasn't very clear what the OP wanted, I was concerned that
the reference to php being a 'server-side' tool/language would be confusing
to the OP (or give him the wrong impression about php's capabilities).

to the OP: php being serverside is only relevant in terms of using php
as a webserver module; the 'client side' is the browser and php does not
run inside the browser (i.e. a php website can not directly interact with
anything on your own PC (unless the website lives physically on your own pc))

[actually Wez Furlong wrong a plugin for IE IIRC that allows you to use php
in the same way as you might use javascript inside the browser]

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> Of course PHP can query the local filesystem. I thought he wanted it to
> query a remote filesystem.
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> JM

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