Re: Serve a file using PHP

Hello, Bit suprised that mozilla didn't let you access the file using the 'file://' notation. Did you actually use three slashes? ie it should be 'file:///home/grant' and not 'file://home/grant/' There isn't any other way in which you can use PHP to access files on a hard disk. PHP is a server side scripting language. You could always try signed java applets. all the best Grant Rutherford wrote:

Hello, Is there a way that PHP can allow a user to browse the files on the server's network, and ultimately send the file to the user? I'm making a database interface with PHP to be used internally on our network. Through a PHP interface, the user wants to browse their network and find a file, and insert the file's path into the database. The user then wants the database to display a link, which when clicked will open the file. They want this to work in Mozilla or IE, on both windows and linux machines. I tried making the path a link with file://"path", but Mozilla wouldn't follow the link (probably a security thing; it makes sense that links shouldn't open local files). Is there a way that I can give PHP the network path (through $_POST for example), and it would return the file instead of an HTML document? Thanks for any help, Grant

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