Linking to local files in a HTML page

doc_1982

I have a PHP/MySQL/Apache server(WAMP) running on my local PC at the moment. I wrote a php script today that catalogues all the files in a folder and its subfolders. This is fine, except that MySQL seemingly can't store a "\", presumably because its UNIX based. That's really not a big problem, seen as i can just echo the results to the screen, and then use a text editor to replace the \'s with /'s.

However, when i try to create a HTML page with php on it, i can't figure out how to link to the local files. What i want to is create a directory listing(which'll be stored in a database) of all the files in a folder, and have each one represented as a link in the HTML page. However, when i try make a normal link, like this

<table bgcolor=#ffffff cellpadding=1 cellspacing=1 border=2>
<?php
echo "<P><tr>
<td><b>Filename</b></td>
</P>";
$block = "<P><tr><td><a href='c:\wamp\www\dossier.gif'>c:\wamp\www\dossier.gif</a></td></P>";
echo($block);
?>
</table>

I get back

Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (c) isn't associated with any program

Which i can understand where its coming from. However, when i then try to make the link like this

<table bgcolor=#ffffff cellpadding=1 cellspacing=1 border=2>
<?php
echo "<P><tr>
<td><b>Filename</b></td>
</P>";
$block = "<P><tr><td><a href='file:///c:/wamp/www/dossier.gif'>file:///c:/wamp/www/dossier.gif</a></td></P>";
echo($block);
?>
</table>

which is apparently the way you're supposed to do it, nothing happens when i click the link.

Any ideas for this, and also, if possible if there's a workaround for the first problem?

aidan_walsh

Don't use absolute references, use relative ones instead.

Use the ../ notation to move to the first common root that the directories use, and speficy each directory from there, or use the ./ notation if the file is in the same directory as your page.

doc_1982

See thats the problem(i think).

WAMP operates its localhost from a directory on the C drive called Wamp. The files i want to catalogue aren't necessarily going to be in that directory. So when i try to run a php script that generates links for every file in the database, any relative linking is going to be from inside c:\wamp\www\, so this won't work, unless i'm understanding you wrong.