Help displaying multiple word documents

Hi I want to display the file names of a folder full of word docs on a web page, without having to manually put each file name in.
I. Is it possible to automatically display the file names within the folder and link to them?
2. Does anyone know how to do this and can you help me.
Thanks in advance for any help.

With PHP you can open a folder and lists it's content. I can check tonight if I still use it somewhere on one of the sites I take care of and post it. I'm sure someone might chyme in and post one before I do but ... at least you'll have a few options

Hi Karinne, did you have any luck with that code?
Regards
Alex

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.ftp-nlist.php
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.ftp-rawlist.php

Ah sorry ... I completely forgot about this. I'll try to check this week.

Hi Ryan, thanks for the links, but I'm way out of my depth , I wouldn't know where to start with the code (the one below for instance). In my naivety I thought there would be a small amount of code I could put into my html doc. If thats the case with the code below I don't even know where to put the path to the folder?
Regards
Alex

Here we go for a 100% working code...

<?

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 function cutspaces($str){
 *** while(substr($str,0,1)==" "){$str=substr($str,1);}
 *** return $str;} 

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$folders=array();
$files=array();
 for($i=0;$i<sizeof($list);$i++){
 *** list($permissions,$next)=split(" ",$list[$i],2);
 *** list($num,$next)=split(" ",cutspaces($next),2);
 *** list($owner,$next)=split(" ",cutspaces($next),2);
 *** list($group,$next)=split(" ",cutspaces($next),2);
 *** list($size,$next)=split(" ",cutspaces($next),2);
 *** list($month,$next)=split(" ",cutspaces($next),2);
 *** list($day,$next)=split(" ",cutspaces($next),2);
 *** list($year_time,$filename)=split(" ",cutspaces($next),2);
 *** if($filename!="." && $filename!=".."){
 ** * ** if(substr($permissions,0,1)=="d"){
 ** * * * ** $folders[]=$filename;
 ** * ** } else {
 ** * * * ** $files[]=$filename;}}}
sort($folders);
sort($files);

?> 

so this will simply "get" all the information WITHOUT being in any case interfered with some spaces, ... etc etc... It will even put files in a $files array and folders in a $folders array, and sort them, so you will be able of using all this later

and: the "folders" will NOT contain "." and ".."

so you can use all this to make a beautiful FTP interface... later on you could for example put permissions and etc etc in other arrays to use them in your result... cute....

Just an observation, but if you wouldn't know where to start with the code for opening folders and displaying their contents maybe you should seek other alternatives, hire someone who does, or start reading up server side languages that are capable of doing this. A few places to start.

http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php


Good Luck,
Scott

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