Directory Listing in HTML

**Whisper** · May 22nd, 2000, 09:06 PM

Something about the number of responses here tells me I wont get an answer anytime in the near future... But i'm gonna ask anyway...

I'm making a webpage for file downloads, and I want it to always be current with the files that are available in the directory.

I figured if there was some way to get a HTML listing of the files in the directory, it would really take a load off. Anyone have a clue?

<~Whisper~>

**noone** · May 24th, 2000, 03:29 AM

Do you have access to any server side programming/scripting for this page?

**Whisper** · May 24th, 2000, 06:35 AM

Yes. I have full access to everythin... Fire away!!

**jwilde1** · May 25th, 2000, 12:27 AM

Does full access mean you have a cgi-bin directory that you can put scripts in that can be executed from a client browser?

**noone** · May 25th, 2000, 06:33 AM

If you can run ASP pages this might help you out:
http://www.asptoday.com/articles/19990319.htm

May 25th, 2000, 08:36 PM

If you have rights to run ASP scripts and create an instance of the "Scripting.FileSystemObject" object then this code should be good for you:

Code:

<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>News & Bulletins</title>
  </head>
  <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#FF9A09" text="#000099" vlink="#000099">
    <font face="Arial">
      <%
        dim Files, Folder, fsoFile
        set fsoFile = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
        set Folder=fsoFile.GetFolder(server.MapPath("."))
        set files = Folder.Files

        if files.count<>0 then
          for each file in files
            if lcase(right(file,5)) = ".html" then
              %>
                <a href="<%=server.urlpathencode(fsoFile.GetBaseName(file))%>.html"><%=fsoFile.GetBaseName(file)%></a><br>
              <%
            end if
          next
        end if

        set fsoFile = Nothing
      %>
    </font>
  </body>
</html>

As it stands the code only lists ".html" files and hides the file extension (but I'm sure a smart person like you can sort that out!

)

As for the colour scheme...

Lets just say that it looks ok when you see the rest of the site I created it for (corporate colours and all that).

Chiow!

[Edited by matthewralston on 05-26-2000 at 09:49 AM]

**parksie** · Jun 5th, 2000, 11:54 PM

depending on how the server's set up, if you just don't put an index.html file (or something similar) in a folder, you either get a directory listing generated by the client browser, or a message telling you it's forbidden to browse. If the former, then you're fine, if the latter, then the clever people here have already told you what to do.

**Whisper** · Jun 6th, 2000, 01:59 AM

Verry nice, matthewralston... I had originaly used the "no-html file in the directory" (tacky) method of creating a file listing, but it seems this works very efficiently

Thanx a million...

~~Whisper~~

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