I'm trying to set up a 'sandbox' if you will on a domain. This is were I test all of my websites/designs before releasing them to the world.

My question is this: how would you go about making a php page that displayed the directories within a directory? I have a domain that is password protected and rejects robots/crawlers so my stuff hopefully doesn't get indexed. Each project of mine has it's own separate folder. When I put in my username/password (already set up) it directs to a new index page. I want that index page to dynamically list the folders within that directory. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks for any help

The mod_dir module will help you.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_dir.html

If you have it enabled requesting a directory (trailing slash) eg images/ will redirect to an index file if it exists.

By using the directive below (you can put it in your.htaccess in the root directory) will look for index.php specifically.

However if this file doesn't exist then it will generate its own index file of all files and directories. Therefore requesting http://example.com/ will give your standard home page but request a directory with no index.php page will generate its own index file. Obviously has security issues .

You can just use a script using scandir function. http://uk.php.net/scandir (php5).

 DirectoryIndex index.php

Thanks. The scandir function is more of what I was looking for. I'll play around with it and give it a try

have a look at AutoIndex ... no databases or messing about ..

http://autoindex.sourceforge.net/

Very cool piece of coding

Starlord

That's pretty cool starlord, not exactly what I'm looking for, but I think I might find somewhere to use that.

If you want to access a directory from within PHP, you can try opendir and readdir commands:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.readdir.php

PHP Code:

if ($handle = opendir('/path/to/files')){
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle)))
        echo "$file\n";
    closedir($handle);
}