I'm not exactly sure where to post this. I need a simple way to achieve what I need....

This should be really simple but I cannot figure it out! I need to have a webpage on my website that shows a couple of folders on my server, and then when you click on those folders, all the files that are inside the particular folder will appear (without me having to make hyperlinks for each one). I don't need a script or code that uploads to the server....I can upload the files no problem. I DO need a way for web guests to be able to view the documents (such as .doc or .pdf) that are in each folder. Please give me a SIMPLE way to accomplish this file navigation system. Thanks so much. I truly appreciate it! :-)

And the server side code this needs to be in is ????

Chris,

Um, good question....I am a novice at this part. :-) I like easy things like html but I can follow how to implement other types of scripts and codes if there are directions to follow. I just need something simple and basic. I need the website guest to click on a page, see a few folders shown on the page, and then be able to see the contents of those folders. Simple; right? :-) Thanks for any advice you can give me. I use Go Daddy hosting if that helps tell you what is all on my server.

Maybe something like this?

PHP Code:

<?PHP

function show_dir($dir, $pos=2)
{
    if($pos == 2) 
    {
        echo "<hr><pre>";
    }

    $handle = @opendir($dir);
    while ($file = @readdir ($handle))
    {
        if (eregi("^\.{1,2}$",$file) || ($file == ".htpasswd")  || ($file == ".htaccess") || ($file == "index.php"))
        {
            continue;
        }

        if(is_dir($dir.$file))
        {
            printf ("% ".$pos."s <b>%s</b>\n", "|-", $file);
            show_dir($dir.$file."/", $pos + 3);
        }
        else
        {  $kb = 1024;
           $mb = $kb * 1024;

           $sof = filesize($dir.$file);

           if ($sof < $kb) {
               $sizeOfFile = $sof . " Byte";
           }
           if ($sof >= $kb) {
               $sizeOfFile = sprintf("%.1f",$sof/$kb) . " KByte";
           }
           if ($sof >= $mb) {
               $sizeOfFile = sprintf("%.1f",$sof/$mb) . " MByte";
           }

            printf ("% ".$pos."s %s\n", "|-", "<a href=\"" . $dir.$file . "\">" . $file . "</a> (" .$sizeOfFile . ")");
        }
    }
    @closedir($handle);

    if($pos == 2)
    {
        echo "</pre><hr>";
    }

}

show_dir("./");

?>

You can also do this with .htaccess if you're host supports it

1. Open up Notepad
2. Add this line...

Options +Indexes

3. Save the file as .htaccess
4. Upload to the folder where your files are

See http://www.rixort.com/tutorials/apache-htaccess.php for reference.

Sounds like all you need is to allow directory browsing?

Thanks to all of you for these responses. It is looking like the place that hosts my site has some overriding setting, so hopefully they can direct me how to correct it. If I need more help on it, I'll be back. But thank you so much. I will keep all your responses for future reference. Thanks! :-)

Directory browsing works and there are even ways to customish the look and contents, look up any apache tutorial on that.
I would however reccomend something like the php code suggested above by w2i. Basically just print the files in the directory and you can skip any you don't want like error.txt or something, and control full html of the page.