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Browser-based FTP browser

Hey all!

Currently I've been working, just for the fun of it, on a FTP browser. Nothing fancy or anything, but I just want to get some help and feedback if possible.

Imagine a index structure like so;

Code:

download

    public

        concepts

        ftpconcept.doc

    private

    ftp

        dumpfile.jpg

    storage

sandbox

    playground

talkphp

    boards

        advanced_programming

            topic

                browser-based_ftp_browser

                    topic.html

index.html

script.js

style.css

image.jpg

As you can see, there are 3 (three) maps named download, sandbox and talkphp. Some of them or in this case, all of them contain a subfolder and at some they contain either a file, directory or even worse, both.
Next to that, the root ( . ) ( « no, that's not a boob) contains files as well. Naturally, the directories are ALSO located in the root because we start scanning from there on out.

Now, for the fun part. I already got this;

PHP Code:


		
			
    $directories     = array();
    $files             = array();
    $dirHandle         = opendir('.'); // root
    $disgardType    = array(".", "..", "index.php", ".htaccess");

    while (false !== ($targetFile = readdir($dirHandle))) {
        
        if (!in_array($targetFile2, $disgardType)) { 
            
            if (is_file($targetFile)) {
                //array_push($files, $targetFile);
            }
            
            if (is_dir($targetFile)) {
                //array_push($directories, $targetFile);
                if (is_dir($targetFile)) {
                    $dirHandle2 = opendir($targetFile);
                    while (false !== ($targetFile2 = readdir($dirHandle2))) {
                        if (!in_array($targetFile2, $disgardType)) { 
                            //array_push($directories, $targetFile2);
                        } 
                        
                    }
                }
            }
        } 
    }
    closedir($dirHandle);

But this all made me wonder quite a bit. I've got, as it stands right now, 4 subdirectories based in talkphp. Even the worst paranoid mapping structure specialist should be able to use this so there should be NO limit to what the level of depth should be.

Now, I can scan the first sublevel of directires which would give me (for example) under download: public, private, ftp and storage. But what if I scanned talkPHP? I should make ANOTHER level of subdirectory checks in a while loop, INSIDE my script (again). If that's so, I can just keep going and going making the same loop over and over and over again. I think you all get where I am going with this.

Can somebody offer some insight on how to do this the GOOD way? Oh yea, as a footnote, I would like to be able to display them so that they SHOW UP as subdirectories in a print_r() function. So under download as key 0, I should get this;

Code:

Array

(

    [download] => Array

        (

            [public] => Array

                (

                    [0] => concepts

                    [1] => ftpconcept.doc

                )



            [0] => private

            [ftp] => Array

                (

                    [0] => dumpfile.jpg

                )



            [storage] => Array

                (

                    [0] => playground

                )



        )

)

Thanks in advance,
ReSpawN

Seriously ... no one?

Bumper di bump... Come on codefreaks, gimme some help here... :-(

First of all you wont get any answers faster by bumbing :P
second is have you tried google searches, to see if someone else might have done this already. for ideas etc.. ps this would be allot easier in java :) just saying.. hum some more information maybe could get you more answers well..
ps: have you tried some your self ? maybe could post what you have tried..

-Codefreek!

Quote:

Originally Posted by codefreek (Post 19282)

Dude, seriously.

Alright, I will elaborate. I searched the web like a crazy bot, asked some friends, tried a bunch of ways on my own and so forth. All the outcomes where unsatisfactory.

There you have it. If no one is just able to help me and just post some sort of spam then simply never mind. Codefreek, please, next time, just post a serious response instead of posting the obvious to gaining posts.

Sorry, but this made me pretty cranky. :-/

I knew that I wrote something similar ages ago. After searching for hours (very messy file system!) I found it. There's no guarantees that it'll even work but I think it did what you're looking for.

http://phpfi.com/372392

I'll give it a look-see. Thanks Salathe!