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accessing files

Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 1:07 pm
by phoenix121
Is it possible to use PHP to see files on the user's computer? And if not, is it possible to upload entire directories in a quick easy way? Thanks in advance.

Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 2:15 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Sadly, for security reasons (very rightly so) your answers are "No" and "No".

Unless you use a Java Applet which the user agrees to install then you cannot currently do those things.

Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:15 pm
by phoenix121
then is it possible to transfer entire folders from another web directory not on my server? (it's probably no, right?)

Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:40 pm
by John Cartwright
phoenix121 wrote:then is it possible to transfer entire folders from another web directory not on my server? (it's probably no, right?)
You guessed it. Although you could use php to connect through ftp to transfer files