Looking for a program to convert a directory listing to HTML (1 Viewer)

[Jeff Kleist]

I'm trying to build a kiosk print station, and basically I need a program that will read a directory and make HTML links to it. I have about 1500 files in there, so doing it by hand is going to suck I want it to go to the next page every 25 entries, and preferably strip the extension.

Anything already out there that could do this?

 

[John_Berger]

It's Java/JavaScript-based and it's not exactly what you want, but it seems to be at least a good starting point for you.

Option 1, FREE!: Software (JAR file) with HTML and JavaScript example to control the applet.
This free applet opens a small pop-up on every start.
Price: 0 USD.

Option 2: Like Option 1, plus the JAVA source code and the right to edit it or to integrate it in your own application.
No pop-up!
Price: 10 USD.

Option 3: Like Option 2, plus full email support from GalaSoft for the integration.
No pop-up!
Price: 50 USD.

http://www.galasoft-lb.ch/myjava/Web...Demo/Demo.html

Quite frankly, I think that you could easily do this yourself with a copy of Perl for Dummies. Perl absolutely accels in situations like this and it's really not all that difficult to learn.

 

[Jeff Kleist]

Highly unlikely. I can't program for shit :frowning:

That would be good if I was just trying to list directories, but it's not what I'm really going for :frowning:

 

[Ken Chan]

Not sure what you want. Does your web server automatically create a directory page with links to each of the files? You could grab the source from that and tweak it.

//Ken

 

[MikeAlletto]

I wrote something like that in perl about 3 years ago for work. Out on the unix server someone could drop a word or pdf file into their designated directories. When someone went to a URL it would go to the directories, collect the file names and create links. I'll see if I still got it somewhere. It was very raw though and not polished at all so it probably needs some cleanup if its going to be used for anything important.

 

[Ted Lee]

hey jeff -

maybe you can find something from cnet? they have lots of file management type utilities...

http://download.com.com/3150-2248-0.html?tag=stbc.gp