Directory / File Indexing - Structure Question

As part of learning php I have set up an automated directory/file listing
process.

On my server I have a directory called 'Notes' and under that a dozen or
so dub-directories on various topics, each containing a mix of html and
mht files.

In the Notes directory I have a php script which echoes links to each sub
directory (excluding . and ..) and incorporates a link to a file
'index.php' in each sub directory.

In turn index.php echoes the html/mht files along with a link to them.

This means that I can add/remove directories and files and they will
automatically be included in my browser, as long as I remember to copy
index.php to each new directory.

I want to change this slightly so that clicking on a link in Notes.php
will write a file called index.html to the selected sub directory and then
navigate to it. This avoids having to copy index.php to each sub directory.

I am OK with most of it except how to switch to the index.html file from a
php file. I read a comment somewhere that php is not html so doesn't
recognise links so is there a way to switch to a specified file in a
browser from a php script please? Having re-read this I need a process
that can call a function then activate a link to index.html in the
appropriate directory.

Many thanks.

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Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who do binary and those
who don't.

On 15 Oct, 13:07, "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_new...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> As part of learning php I have set up an automated directory/file listing
> process.
>
> On my server I have a directory called 'Notes' and under that a dozen or
> so dub-directories on various topics, each containing a mix of html and
> mht files.
>
> In the Notes directory I have a php script which echoes links to each sub
> directory (excluding . and ..) and incorporates a link to a file
> 'index.php' in each sub directory.
>
> In turn index.php echoes the html/mht files along with a link to them.
>
> This means that I can add/remove directories and files and they will
> automatically be included in my browser, as long as I remember to copy
> index.php to each new directory.
>
> I want to change this slightly so that clicking on a link in Notes.php
> will write a file called index.html to the selected sub directory and then
> navigate to it. This avoids having to copy index.php to each sub directory.
>
> I am OK with most of it except how to switch to the index.html file from a
> php file. I read a comment somewhere that php is not html so doesn't
> recognise links so is there a way to switch to a specified file in a
> browser from a php script please? Having re-read this I need a process
> that can call a function then activate a link to index.html in the
> appropriate directory.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> --
> Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
> There are 10 types of people in the world, those who do binary and those
> who don't.

I think you are looking for the header() function

On 15/10/2007 in message <ff079b02q4p@drn.newsguy.com> Tom wrote:

>I think most PHP is setup on teh web server so all .php files are parsed
>by PHP.
>IF the file extension is .html then it would be a plain HTML file that us
>sent
>as-is. If you didn't need any PHP code in the index pages you are creating
>in
>those directories, it would make sense to simply use the .html version .

Many thanks Captain P and Tom, I will investigate the header() function.

In the meantime I have taken a slightly different approach. I have
book-marked CreateIndexFiles.php as my entry point to my notes files. The
script then creates an index.html file in each sub-directory and echoes a
link to each of those index files. This means if I add/delete a directory
or file then I just navigate to the bookmark, hit Ctrl+F5 and it gets
re-built automagically.

If anybody has any other suggestions as to how to achieve this I would be
happy to try them as part of my learning process :-)

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Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
There are 3 types of people in this world. Those who can count, and those
who can't.