Question from BETT - Displaying Folders in Webpage

[peterv5]

Would like to show the contents of a folder within our intranet, while maintaining css formating to keep look and feel the same.

 

Can anyone help?

[Geoff]

If you're using Apache and are using the mod_autoindex module to produce your indexes you can use the 'IndexStyleSheet' directive to indicate a css stylesheet to use.

 

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_autoindex.html#indexstylesheet

[webman]

If you run PHP you can use this script.

[peterv5]

Unfortunately as yet we don't have a server- just a large Buffalo linkstation disk sitting on our network. So my understanding is I can't run CMS software that needs PHP and Apache etc? Yes, a bit dark ages, but...

[webman]

Yes, you'd need web server software installed on a server to run a CMS - ideally Apache with PHP, and probably MySQL database (depending on which CMS you use).

[NetworkGeezer]

What, a multi-teer solution with the Buffalo as the backend?

[webman]

It's possible, just mount one of the buffalo's SMB share on the web server in linux, Map Network Drive to it on Windows.

[SimpleSi]

If your intranet folder is fairly static, you can use the DirHTML program to produce an html file of a folder (or folders) every now and then.

 

You can customise the way the pages produced are displayed but you'd have to play with them to see if you can incorporate CSS ito them (Im not a CSS expert)

 

Example that I use it for is here - I just use it to produce a listing of all pdfs in a folder (but you can make it do all files) and then I upload the filelist page (and the latest pdf) to update the website.

 

regards

 

Simon

[peterv5]

I think that dirHTML looks at first glance like the answer to a maiden's prayer. Thanks very much, Simon This looks doable!

Peter

[SimpleSi]

@webman

 

I thought of trying out your code but what on earth is all the

$I['file']='R0lGODlhEAAPA ... etc

 

at the beginning of the file 8O

 

Will all my computers end up belonging to you

 

regards

 

Simon

[webman]

It's actually an icon (so it can be distributed as a single file). It's not my own code and I can't remember where I got it from