Why doesn't
$dir = opendir("//harp/graphics/");
work anyway? Is this an oversite in the Win32 development of PHP? You're
able to do this in Perl.
"Keith Jeffery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I'm writing some PHP scripts that will only be used over our local
> Windows NT/2000 network. I've written a directory browser in PHP, but
that
> only sees the server's local directories/files whereas I would also like
to
> be able to see shared network directories. Since the PHP directory
> functions don't allow network connections (i.e. //harp/graphics/) I
decided
> that a good workaround would be to write a C++ program that listed the
> directories and files (like dir or ls if you're on Unix, and I can't get
dir
> to work through a PHP exec command), and then I would parse the output in
> PHP. I've since written two different C++ programs to do this, one using
> findfirst and findnext, and other using opendir and readdir. They both
work
> by specifying the directory to be listed after the program (i.e.
> "listFiles.exe d:/" or "listFiles.exe //harp/graphics/"). Both of these
> programs work just as expected from the command prompt, working with both
> directories local to the server and those on a shared network drive.
> However, both of these programs fail using any PHP system command (exec,
> passthru, system) when specifying a network drive as the arguement,
although
> both work when a server's local directory is given. For some reason it
can
> no longer read the network drive when run through PHP. I've double and
> triple checked the arguements passed, and they command issused is exactly
> that given at the command prompt. I've even tried changing the current
> working directory in the C++ program and to no avail. Does anybody have
any
> insight, or perhaps another route down which to travel? I will happily
> provide PHP and/or C++ code for what I'm doing.
>
> Thank you,
> Keith Jeffery
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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