RE: [PHP] dynamic menu possible?
| From: | Luboslav Gabal ml. | Date: | Sun, 16 Sep 2001 17:19:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] dynamic menu possible? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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> What I want to do is have a drop-down menu where the options are files
This is matter of HTML or JavaScript
> located in a folder on the server that changes as items are added to or
> removed. Then the user can select an item from the menu, submit, and that
> page will load.
This is script for writing all files located in a folder:
$folder = "c:/borland/";
$dir = opendir($folder);
while ($file = readdir($dir)) {
echo $file."<br>";
}
> Did that make sense?
> So I have 1.htm and 2.htm and 3.htm in a folder. A selectable menu reads
the
> folder and lists those three files as options. The user can click on it
and
> submit and that page will load. And if I add 4.htm, the menu will add that
> to the drop down on its own.
>
> That that's not possible, how close can I get to something like that?
> An example of something close to that I found on www.megatokyo.com . They
> have a dropdown menu where a user selects an item and gets sent to that
> page. A URL from one attempts shows as
> http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?date=2001-09-04 . How is
> that done?
>
> Again, if I could just be pointed to the related PHP concepts I'll take it
> from there.
Try to start here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dir.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php
Lubo