Web page created from file structure

[hcclnoodles]

Hi there

Basically I am creating a documentation web page which has thousands of html documents currently in a neat windows file structure ie a main directory called `Docs` then under that `Support`, `General Interest` and `online books` then (for example) under Support there will be a few more directories which will eventually contain html docs

Is there any way or any tool that will automatically create a text based website from this directory structure (ie a physical directory would appear on the page as a link to new page that list the conntents as more links etc). It would take me months to create each page considering the amount of directories involved.

I know you might say why not just type `c:\etc\etc` in the address bar and browse using IE's file browsing functionality. Unfortunately this is not what I need, I need to integrate this into a current web page and add comments under the links etc

any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[adam_uk]

the price thing

you should be able to place £ before it prints out the actual price from the database

the time thing you need make either the font smaller or the table collum wider



the 3rd thing not to sure about that in asp

 

[hcclnoodles]

im sorry, i think you replied to the wrong post my friend

 

[adam_uk]

opps yeh so i did sorry

if an admin can delete these to posts that would great ..

 

[deadserious]

Re: web page created from file structure

Originally posted by hcclnoodles
Hi there

Basically I am creating a documentation web page which has thousands of html documents currently in a neat windows file structure ie a main directory called `Docs` then under that `Support`, `General Interest` and `online books` then (for example) under Support there will be a few more directories which will eventually contain html docs

Is there any way or any tool that will automatically create a text based website from this directory structure (ie a physical directory would appear on the page as a link to new page that list the conntents as more links etc). It would take me months to create each page considering the amount of directories involved.

I know you might say why not just type `c:\etc\etc` in the address bar and browse using IE's file browsing functionality. Unfortunately this is not what I need, I need to integrate this into a current web page and add comments under the links etc

any help would be greatly appreciated

You would probably need to use a serverside language like Perl or PHP. They both have the ability to read directories and such. Basically you would need to get the files in the directories into an array so you can loop through them and print out links to them dynamically. The php glob function could be useful for doing this. You can check out all PHP's file system functions here http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php