Posted by Martie on 02/27/06 20:45

In article <7naMf.2574$p43.2221@fed1read05>, Johnny says...
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>"David Haynes" <david.haynes2@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>news:PG5Mf.9897$2a4.2573@fe71.usenetserver.com...
>> henshu wrote:
>> > Complete n00b question yet again. Anyone know a way to make PHP pull a
>> > "file list" (know as dir in windows, ls in *nix, etc) for a specific
>> > directory, and have PHP print the results onto the page?
>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dir.php
>> Look at the opendir, readdir and closedir functions.
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>> -david-
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>but be aware that on most servers the openbase restrictions prevent from
>reading outside your own directories.
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Just to clarify, did you mean those functions are limited to the directories
inside your normal web space? I usually try to rely on the built-in PHP
functions than using exec() type commands. Thanks!


Martie
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