Reading filenames from a folder - for intranet site

[SadOldGoth]

Hi Folks,

I'm trying to set up a page of links to documents in the local folder. Does anyone have a script that can read through the filenames in a folder and create links to each of them?

Ideally what will happen is that the page will open read the filenames, create links to the filenames and display the links on the page.

Can this be done through javascript or do I need to look elsewhere?

Thanks,

Jes

 

[KevinAr18]

I don't think you could get a list of all files in a directory using javascript.

If you were using a server on each person's computer then you could work out a way, but that's more complicated than you probably want. So in essence, yes, you will need to look elsewhere.

 

[mflancour]

I dont think this is really what you are looking for but the following will kinda do this.

<form action=&quot;file:///c:\path/&quot;>
<input type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;button name&quot;>

 

[SadOldGoth]

Hi Both,

Yeah, I kinda figured this was the response I was going to get. Oh well, better learn ASP.

Thanks very much for your responses though,

Jes

 

[artdirectoreric]

Can you do this in ASP? It's very similar to a question I had in the Frontpage forum.

 

[Tarwn]

Yes this can be done in ASP, there is a FileSystem object, File object, and even Drive object. Basically you can create the filesystem object with a path, then loop through all the Files int the filesystem doing anything you want with them (like display the names). If you do a search on the ASP forum there was an example posted at somepoint in the last week and half if I remember correctly.
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[SadOldGoth]

Excellent, many thanks,

Jes