RE: [PHP] I can't read directory contents

*smacks head* Thanks Ben, got it working! You've been a great help! -----Original Message----- From: Ben Gollmer [mailto:ben@jatosoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 4:35 PM To: Peter Benoit Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] I can't read directory contents Oh, I see - you have to set $currentDir to whatever directory you want to read. Opening a null directory will always fail :) Put this at the top of your script (except of course put the directory you want to read). $currentDir = "/home/username/www"; Ben Gollmer Jatosoft, LLC http://www.jatosoft.com/ At 04:13 PM 6/29/2000 -0400, you wrote: >No, it's the error specified in your script: > >Error: Cannot open directory $currentDir. > >except $currentDir never shows up so all I see is: > >"Error: Cannot open directory" > > >-Peter > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ben Gollmer [mailto:ben@jatosoft.com] >Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 4:19 PM >To: Peter Benoit >Cc: php-general@lists.php.net >Subject: RE: [PHP] I can't read directory contents > > >What's the exact error? Something about "Access Denied"? Perhaps the user >PHP is running as doesn't have read access to your directories. > >I'm not sure why a directory listing would be a security issue, especially >for publicly accessible HTML files. That's something you'd have to ask your >ISP... > >Ben Gollmer >Jatosoft, LLC >http://www.jatosoft.com/ > > >At 03:51 PM 6/29/2000 -0400, you wrote: > >Ya, sometimes you see so much it just all looks confusing... > > > >Your script returns the Error message every time, which I guess means I > >can't read the contents of the directory? > > > >Is there a permission that needs to be set for this? What if my host says > >it's a security issue? > > > >Thanks again, > >Peter > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Ben Gollmer [mailto:ben@jatosoft.com] > >Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 3:54 PM > >To: Peter Benoit > >Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > >Subject: Re: [PHP] I can't read directory contents > > > > > >I think the problem lies in the exec( "ls -la $dir",$lines,$rc) line. ls > >doesn't do anything under NT. > > > >Try using the built-in filesystem functions in PHP. For example: > > > >$theDir = @opendir($currentDir); > >if (!$theDir) > >{ > > print ("<b>Error: Cannot open directory > > $currentDir.</b><br>"); > >} > >else > >{ > > while($filename = readdir($theDir)) > > { > > print $filename; > > print ("<br>"); > > } > >} > > > >This will print out all the files in the directory $currentDir. Works under > >both NT and Linux. Just add an ereg or two in there to match html files, > >and you should be set. > > > >Ben Gollmer > >Jatosoft, LLC > >http://www.jatosoft.com/ > > > > > >At 03:23 PM 6/29/2000 -0400, you wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >I was using the following code on my Unix server which worked just fine. > > >Now on my NT server, the host company states that I cannot read the > > >directory contents and write them to this page because it's a security > > >problem. > > > > > >Simply put, this should look for .htm files in a directory, and print >them > > >out on the page. It doesn't work now, but it works fine on my Unix host > > >machine. > > > > > >Is this a security problem? Is there a setting I need on NT? Can't I do > > >this with the standard read permissions? > > > > > >What do I need in order for a script like this to work? > > > > > >TIA, > > >Peter > > > > > > > > ><?php > > > exec( "ls -la $dir",$lines,$rc); > > > $count = count($lines) - 1; > > > for ($i = 1; $i <= $count; $i++) { > > > $type = substr($lines[$i],0,1); > > > $name = strrchr($lines[$i], " "); > > > $name = substr($name,1); > > > $dire = substr($lines[$i],0,strpos($lines[$i],$name)); > > > if (strpos($name, ".mp3")) { > > > //echo "<font color=\"red\">"; > > > } else { > > > if (strpos($name, ".php") or strpos($name, ".cgi")) { > > > // echo "<font color=\"maroon\">"; > > > } else { > > > if ($type == "d") { > > > //echo "<font color=\"blue\">"; > > > } else { > > > //echo "<font color=\"black\">"; > > > } > > > } > > > } > > > //echo "$dire</font>"; > > > if ($type == "d") { > > > if ($name == "." or $name == "..") { > > > echo ""; > > > } else { > > > if ($dir == "") { > > > // echo "<a >href=directory.php?dir=$name>$name</a><br>"; > > > } else { > > > // echo "<a > > >href=directory.php?dir=$dir/$name>$name</a><br>"; > > > } > > > } > > > } else { > > > if ($dir == "" and !strpos($name, ".php") and > > > !strpos($name, > > >".text")) { > > > echo " <P><font face=\"verdana,arial\">[<a > >href=$name>view</A>] > > >: <a href=source.php3?page_url=$name>$name</a><br>"; > > > } else { > > > // echo " <P><font > > > face=\"verdana,arial\">[<a > > >href=$name>view</A>] : <a > > >href=source.php3?page_url=$dir/$name>$name</a><br>"; > > > } > > > } > > > } > > > ?> > > > > > >-- > > >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > >-- > >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net