user input?

**Geoff Berrow** · Apr 25 '07, 06:25 AM

Re: user input?

Message-ID: <_IvXh.74$tp5.6 1@newssvr23.new s.prodigy.netfr om Jon
Slaughter contained the following:

>Is there a way to get user input from a php script that doesn't have to do
>with html? I would like to ask the user(me) to input a directory(prefe rably
>in a gui way such as a folder selection dialog) to do some work with. Is
>this possible when running the script directly on my comp(not off a
>server(remot e or local))?
>
>The script is a management thing that I'd like to create to help generate
>some html code. Essentially I want it to scan a dir(but don't want to hard
>code it) and have it generate a list of links for the files in that
>dir(which are images). Maybe even asking for a description for each.

PHP is server side scripting so there has to be a server involved. But
that can be a local server installed on your own machine.

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**Rami Elomaa** · Apr 25 '07, 06:45 AM

Re: user input?

"Geoff Berrow" <blthecat@ckdog .co.ukwrote in message
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Message-ID: <_IvXh.74$tp5.6 1@newssvr23.new s.prodigy.netfr om Jon
Slaughter contained the following:
>

>>Is there a way to get user input from a php script that doesn't have to do
>>with html? I would like to ask the user(me) to input a
>>directory(pre ferably
>>in a gui way such as a folder selection dialog) to do some work with. Is
>>this possible when running the script directly on my comp(not off a
>>server(remo te or local))?
>>
>>The script is a management thing that I'd like to create to help generate
>>some html code. Essentially I want it to scan a dir(but don't want to hard
>>code it) and have it generate a list of links for the files in that
>>dir(which are images). Maybe even asking for a description for each.

>
PHP is server side scripting so there has to be a server involved. But
that can be a local server installed on your own machine.

A server is not required to use PHP CLI, but the command line interface is
pretty limited. ;)

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**Jon Slaughter** · Apr 25 '07, 07:15 AM

Re: user input?

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Message-ID: <_IvXh.74$tp5.6 1@newssvr23.new s.prodigy.netfr om Jon
Slaughter contained the following:
>

>>Is there a way to get user input from a php script that doesn't have to do
>>with html? I would like to ask the user(me) to input a
>>directory(pre ferably
>>in a gui way such as a folder selection dialog) to do some work with. Is
>>this possible when running the script directly on my comp(not off a
>>server(remo te or local))?
>>
>>The script is a management thing that I'd like to create to help generate
>>some html code. Essentially I want it to scan a dir(but don't want to hard
>>code it) and have it generate a list of links for the files in that
>>dir(which are images). Maybe even asking for a description for each.

>
PHP is server side scripting so there has to be a server involved. But
that can be a local server installed on your own machine.
>

Um, not true.

**Jerry Stuckle** · Apr 25 '07, 11:15 AM

Re: user input?

Jon Slaughter wrote:

Is there a way to get user input from a php script that doesn't have to do
with html? I would like to ask the user(me) to input a directory(prefe rably
in a gui way such as a folder selection dialog) to do some work with. Is
this possible when running the script directly on my comp(not off a
server(remote or local))?
>
The script is a management thing that I'd like to create to help generate
some html code. Essentially I want it to scan a dir(but don't want to hard
code it) and have it generate a list of links for the files in that
dir(which are images). Maybe even asking for a description for each.
>
Even if it was a little shell program to change the directory(sorta like
dos) would be much better than having to enter in the directory name by
hand.
>
>
Thanks,
Jon
>
>

Hi, Jon,

You should be able to do it with the php-gtk package.

I haven't actually used this package, but I did investigate it for
another project and it looked ok.

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**Jon Slaughter** · Apr 25 '07, 12:05 PM

Re: user input?

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attg lobal.netwrote in message
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Jon Slaughter wrote:

>Is there a way to get user input from a php script that doesn't have to
>do with html? I would like to ask the user(me) to input a
>directory(pref erably in a gui way such as a folder selection dialog) to
>do some work with. Is this possible when running the script directly on
>my comp(not off a server(remote or local))?
>>
>The script is a management thing that I'd like to create to help generate
>some html code. Essentially I want it to scan a dir(but don't want to
>hard code it) and have it generate a list of links for the files in that
>dir(which are images). Maybe even asking for a description for each.
>>
>Even if it was a little shell program to change the directory(sorta like
>dos) would be much better than having to enter in the directory name by
>hand.
>>
>>
>Thanks,
>Jon

>
Hi, Jon,
>
You should be able to do it with the php-gtk package.
>
I haven't actually used this package, but I did investigate it for another
project and it looked ok.
>

Ok, thanks... I'll take a look at it and see what I come up with.

Jon

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