how to get the url of a folder.. urgently need help

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July 11th, 2002, 08:37 PM
jeanieteo

how to get the url of a folder.. urgently need help

hi guys,, need ur help....

i facing some problem. at first i thought it was a html problem but my frenz tell me it can be done using javascript.
that y i hope by posting here can help me...

i know <input type=file name=try> will display a textbox wif a "browse"btn tat allow user to select a particular file n return the entire path of the file selected in the textbox.

however, now i want to allow user to select a folder only and return the entire path of the folder.

therefore the output in the textfield should be
c:\my document\abc\
instead of
c:\my document\abc\text.html

can anyone tell me how to do so? i need the answer urgently...
July 12th, 2002, 10:09 AM
goddess_spanky

I don't know how you could easily do this with JavaScript, but it would be very easy using VBScript. The only problem with that is VBScript only works in IE (client-side).
If you are doing server-side scripting (ASP page using VBScript) then I can give you simple way to do this using the FileSystemObject.
Let me know exactly how your page is setup (HTML/JavaScript or ASP/VBScript) & I'll see what I can do.
July 14th, 2002, 07:39 PM
jeanieteo

thanks a lot...
but i dun know whether vbscript will work for me a not..
actually my coding is using jsp( java server page).
i use pure html with javascript.. in a form which i post it to a jsp file to do the backend servicing.
i m using tomcat webserver 3.3.1.
so can vbscript be like javascript tat can be executed in jsp pages..

thanks for replying.. hope u can reply me soon..
July 15th, 2002, 02:56 AM
Zvona

Guess this is what you're after :

Code:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>Parsing a folder</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1;" /> <script type="text/javascript">  </script> </head> <body> <form action=""> <table border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td><input type="file" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><input type="file" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><input type="file" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td><input type="button" value="getFolderNames()" onclick="alert(getFolderNames(this.form));" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </form> </body> </html>

Tested with NN4.7 & IE6. Blue function is the one you need. It returns the value in an array.