script to search a web server directory

[Hostos]

Hello All,

Please advice...I would like to do this in php, but I am open
to suggestions


I am going to place about 6 gigs of jpeg pictures on a web
server. And. I want to allow a user to go to a web page and type in
the name of a file, and if the file is found in the particular
directory on the server, the jpeg picuture will then be display in the
web browser.


I am thinking about just having a php script that will search
the particular directory, but I am not sure where to get started.
Also, will this bogg down the server.

And, in case anyone is wondering...thi s is being done for a
department at my university.


thanks,
Hostos

[Will Stranathan]

Re: script to search a web server directory

hmon6710@hotmai l.com (Hostos) wrote in message news:<e9f4a21b. 0403012134.1145 d8c8@posting.go ogle.com>...[color=blue]
> Hello All,
>
> I am going to place about 6 gigs of jpeg pictures on a web
> server. And. I want to allow a user to go to a web page and type in
> the name of a file, and if the file is found in the particular
> directory on the server, the jpeg picuture will then be display in the
> web browser.
>[/color]
Perhaps I'm misunderstandin g the requirements, but why do you need
perl or PHP to do this? That's what webservers do already. Type in
the URL to a file, and the webserver retrieves it.