Can PHP do this?

[goatlip]

I'm wondering if PHP can read the location of a file off of a Local drive/directory, i.e. C:\temp\testfile.txt, put that location into a database field and then make the location a link when a query is run to list the files in that drive.

How would I go about doing something like this?? I've tried connecting to a local drive but I'm not sure about the syntax.

Thanks.

[Phil.Roberts]

A server side script cannot read a local drive. Thats impossible.

[goatlip]

What if the server is part of the same local network? Or if the drive is located on the same server? Like my server is on the W: drive and I'm trying to access things on another drive.

Are you saying that I can only access items that are under the root directory??

[ospinto]

Check this:
http://www.php.net/dir
The table of Contents has all the functions you need to write that code.
In the "user contributed notes" on that page, you can find a bunch of directory/file listing functions that will make your job a whole lot easier.
Hope this helped.

[maxor]

A server side script cannot read a local drive. Thats impossible.

I think he means local drive as in local to the computer running PHP.

[goatlip]

yes Maxor, that is correct. thanks for clarifying.