Text file viewer in browser
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 4:32 am
Hi, I need to write a text file viewer (not the directory tree, but the actual file contents) for use in a browser. It will be used to view large files, I want to give the user the ability to actually ummm, browse the file, ie prev page & next page button, while each page will show only a portion of the file.
Two question:
* Is there anyway to pass the file descriptor through POST (or something) so that on each page I can keep reading from an already open file, and not starting all over again (again - huge files)
* Is there a way to read the file backwards? Will be very useful for browsing back in a file.
Any other implementation ideas are very welcome. Thanx
Two question:
* Is there anyway to pass the file descriptor through POST (or something) so that on each page I can keep reading from an already open file, and not starting all over again (again - huge files)
* Is there a way to read the file backwards? Will be very useful for browsing back in a file.
Any other implementation ideas are very welcome. Thanx