Answering my own ambiguous question. What I want is a way to display folders and files on server side, and allowing user to conveniently browse them. INPUT(_type='file') looks like what I want, but it is not, because INPUT(_type='file') can only browse files on client side. Finally I use this jquery File Tree plugin (http://abeautifulsite.net/2008/03/jquery-file-tree)
Just for your information. Regards, Iceberg On Apr23, 12:30am, Iceberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry for chime in. Do you guys have a convenient way to input a file > path via browser? I've tried these. > > 1) INPUT(_name='the_path') # User have to type it > > 2) INPUT(_name='a_file', _type='file') > This is assuming that the web server is running on local machine as a > desktop application. However, in old days the file object contains > path info, but that is no longer the case in recent browsers. > > 3) So I guess I have to somehow design a dedicated interface to > "browse" the directories on my server. Or does it already exist > somewhere? > > Do you have better way? > > Regards, > Iceberg > > On Apr22, 9:39pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > something like this? > > > def folder(): > > ? ? import os > > ? ? return dict(files=TABLE(*[TR(TD(f)) for f in os.listdir('/ > > path/')])) > > > On Apr 22, 7:48?am, greenpoise <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I want to display the contents (files) of a folder and be able to > > > click and download the files. How is this accomplished within a > > > controller? leads? any examples out there? I know there is os.path, > > > os.listdir and glob. Do I have to import the modules in Web2Py? > > > > Thanks > > -- -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/subscribe?hl=en
