Php opendir windows share

Asked 8 years, 7 months ago. Active 1 year, 4 months ago. Viewed 15k times. Improve this question. Mogsdad Sysel Sysel 31 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Havenard Havenard You only forgot to escape then.

Make a mapped network drive then and access the drive letter, it should work. This may happen if directory is not a valid directory, the directory can not be opened due to permission restrictions, or due to filesystem errors. Example 1 opendir example. Submit a Pull Request Report a Bug.

Parameters directory The directory path that is to be opened context For a description of the context parameter, refer to the streams section of the manual. Return Values Returns a directory handle resource on success, or false on failure. Changelog Version Description 8. Thought I could help clarify something with accessing network shares on a Windows network in this case , running PHP 4. However you are logged into the Windows box, your Apache service must be running under an account which has access to the share.

The easiest and probably least safe way for me was to change the user for the Apache service to the computer administrator do this in the service properties, under the "Log On" tab. Here are two versions of the same function to list all files in a directory tree. A couple of notes on Matt's posts on Windows Network Drives: Since the system command writes the output of the executed shell command straight to the output buffer, if you wish to hide the return of the mapping command i.

You probably thinking "why not just use exec? If you want to guarantee you app will work with no messing around on the host system, use the system command. The username and password order in the "net use This function sorts files by name as strings, but without regard to case.

It also does some handy string formatting of the file size information. Would you like to view your directories in your browser this script might come in handy. If I called the function more than once on the same page it would combine the file lists.

I looked at Lasse Dalegaard's example and used the following solution. I ran into a little snag in example 1. I was trying to print the files numerically in a directory. Solution: Use scandir instead php5 or store the files in an array and sort it. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. Hi, I have an intranet website.

Thank you. Spiceworks Help Desk. The help desk software for IT. Track users' IT needs, easily, and with only the features you need. Learn More ». This shouldn't be web-facing, obviously. Now that we have that out of the way, one option is to do something like: Setup the base of the share as a virtual drive, say Q: -- Unless PHP can browse shares, but I don't think it can.