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

**jeanieteo** · July 11th, 2002, 08:37 PM

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...

**goddess_spanky** · July 12th, 2002, 10:09 AM

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.

**jeanieteo** · July 14th, 2002, 07:39 PM

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..

**Zvona** · July 15th, 2002, 02:56 AM

Guess this is what you're after :

Code:

<!-- Example Written by Zvona -->
<?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">
		<!--
		function getFolderNames(oForm)
		{
			var iA		= 0;
			var aInputF	= new Array();
			var aReturnVal	= new Array();
			for (var iI=0;iI<oForm.length;iI++)
			{
				if (oForm.elements[iI].type == "file")
				{
					aInputF[iA] = oForm.elements[iI];
					iA++;
				}
			}

			for (var iI=0;iI<aInputF.length;iI++)
			{
				if (aInputF[iI].disabled || aInputF[iI].value == "")
					aReturnVal[iI] = "No folder";
				else
					aReturnVal[iI]	= aInputF[iI].value.substring(0,aInputF[iI].value.lastIndexOf("\\"));
			}

			return aReturnVal;
		}
		// -->
		</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.

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