Is It Just a Matter of Getting the Pathname Righr?

Okay, I'm sorry for the length of this post, but I've worked my way thru a number of exercises--acoupla chapters' worth, in fact, since that last question was solved--before being stumped again. I'm not just turning pages and running to you folks without doing any work of my own. I'm trying to cut out excess code, but I again apologize that this is longish nonetheless. Again, I am on a Macintosh PowerBook, where my hard drive is, in fact, named a variation of "My Hard Drive" (with cap letters and spaces, as the Macintosh allows). So this brings me to my first questions: Do I change the line $dirName = "c:/csci/mm" to something like $dirName = My Hard Drive:/ followed by the exact name of every last folder until I come to the folder containing the GIFs and JPEGs I want to index and follow that with the .html extension? Or do I use something like $dirName = http://localhost/[my username]/ followed by the exact name of every last folder until I come to the folder containing the GIFs and JPEGs I want to index and follow that with the .html extension? The error message refers to "unexpected $ ... on line 33". Line 33 of the code below is: </a>. Then, of course, the "unexpected $" of the error message does refer to the variable names to use in the $_POST--or is it better to use $_REQUEST instead?--lines right after <?php. Which of these belongs and why? Or, actually, which doesn't, and how come? $imageIndex = $_POST['imageIndex']? $dirName = $_POST['dirName']; $currentFile = $_POST['currentFile']; $theFiles = $_POST['theFiles']; $imageFiles = $_POST['imageFiles']; $output = $_POST['output']; Am I on the right track, at least? Thank you very much. Steve Tiano ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- The code: <?php // image index // generates an index file containing all images in a particular directory //point to whatever directory you wish to index. //index will be written to this directory as imageIndex.html $dirName = "c:/csci/mm"; $dp = opendir($dirName); chdir($dirName); //add all files in directory to $theFiles array while ($currentFile !== false){ $currentFile = readDir($dp); $theFiles[] = $currentFile; } // end while //extract gif and jpg images $imageFiles = preg_grep("/jpg$|gif$/", $theFiles); $output = ""; foreach ($imageFiles as $currentFile){ $output .= <<<HERE <a href = $currentFile> <img src = "$currentFile" height = 50 width = 50> </a> HERE; } // end foreach //save the index to the local file system $fp = fopen("imageIndex.html", "w"); fputs ($fp, $output); fclose($fp); //readFile("imageIndex.html"); print "<a href = $dirName/imageIndex.html>image index</a>\n"; ?> -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .