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Is it posssible to list down files from a directory with Javascript? How?

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as far as I know from numerous reading it isn't possible to detect any files on the server with client side javascript. With server side javascript it may be possible but I have no idea how you'd go about implementing that, I don't think server side javascript is as readily supported as client side so I think you're gonna be out of luck - better try PHP or ASP if your server supports it.

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I think with client side JavaScript it's impossible - it doesn't have the permissions to access that kind of stuff on the server. There was though a very comprehensive thread on this over in the server-side forum, done using PHP. I am currently using this for a website I made for a friend, and it works just great: http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum12/HTML/001334.html


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Actually, I'm putting some stuff on CD and I think server- side script would not be able to do that, so I'm thinking if its possible to implement it using javascript, or any other client side script.

I guess I'm going to have to try my luck on this.

cell 799

Well in that case you could resort to VBScript and use the FileSystemObject to work the directorys. Unfortunatley that would be Win/IE only if you want it to run in a browser...
/Dan

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