Hey all!

And I'd like to first thank any and all who try to help me on this matter.

Here is what I am trying to do. I will break it down as simply as I can.

I need to create a single download page (or multiple if necessary) that does the following:

1.) Automatically "finds" files that were uploaded by the administrator/user.
2.) Place them in categories. (IE. 123.rar goes to "Number" section, ABC.rar goes to "Letter Section".
3.) Automatically updates the page without the user having to edit anything.

I know how I could do this all manually by making a page and updating it accordingly, but if there is a way to automate this process other than where the user uploads the files to, that'd be great.

I hope I am in the right section!

Thanks in advance!

PS. I would have searched on this forum but I had searched for quite a while on the net for a solution but didn't necessarily know "what" to search for.

Kepp track of all the uploaded files in a database. The database could also store information of what category, tags, key words etc. are associated with each file. It would then be a simple matter to list all available downloads and to sort them, or to just show a single category or whatever else you would like to do.

And of course, each entry could also keep track of who uploaded it.

Thank you for getting back to me!

I am not quite sure I understand though So I apologize in advance for being daft.

This may be a better way to explain what I am trying to do.

When the user uploads their file, is there anything I can do so that the webpage itself will list the download without them having to actually update the HTML of the page?

For example:

mywebpage.html has the following download links listed on the page:

"File 1"
"File 2"
"File 3"

User uploads "File 4" via FTP client and/or browser based file manager to said directory containing "File 1, 2" etc...

mywebpage.html then automatically updates the webpage to list:

"File 1"
"File 2"
"File 3"
"File 4"

I hope this makes sense. And once again I apologize for not completely understanding what you may be implying.

**Bump**

Thanks in advance

Seems you need to read up on the basics of PHP and MySQL.
Try tizag.com, they have nice tutorials.

I will do that, thank you for directing me