Posted by Gert van der Kooij on 04/22/06 14:51

In article <444a172e$0$98638$dbd4d001@news.euronet.nl>,
nschuyt@hotmail.com says...
> Gert van der Kooij wrote:
> > I have about 600 html files on my PC and I want to create an index for
> > it. The index should initially display 6 entries, 1 - 100, 101 - 200,
> > 201 - 300, ....
> > If I click on 1 - 100, it should display 10 entries 1 - 10, 11 - 20,
> > 21 - 30, ......
> > After clicking 1 - 10, it should display an index with links to the
> > html files, fileone should open 1.html etc.
>
> You need some server side scripting. Have a look at
> http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.readdir.php for a start.
> An alternative is to store the meta data (file name, file location) of the
> html-files in a database.
> If the html-files have the same structure you might consider creating the
> html files with the contents of a database.

Well, this is just a one-time job. I know which files are on my system
so it isn't necessary to create the index dynamically. I just don't know
how to create such a cascading index.

> > The index should be on the left site of the page, the 1.html on the
> > other site.
>
> If you solved the former problem, that will be an easy one :-)
>

If somebody can just give me a short example it would be great. I can
program in COBOL and REXX allready but I don't have any plans to learn
HTML, I just need a one-time solution for this 'problem'.

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