Link to file in local pc

[sorlaker]

How should i make this work ?

PHP Code:

echo "<a href=\"file://c://filePath/$file\">$file</a>"; 


is it possible?

[kbluhm]

It's certainly possible, but the only person that will be able to view it is you and anyone else that happens to have a file with that path and name on their local PC... only they'll view their own file, not yours.

So what you're looking to accomplish... isn't accomplishable in the way you're probably looking for. You'll have to upload it to a remote server where everyone will have access, then link to that path.

[sorlaker]

No that's exactly the thing i wanna do. Filtering files from my own folder. Then i wanted to make them "dragable" to a video player program.

[kbluhm]

Ah, well alright then:

PHP Code:

echo "<a href=\"file:///C:/filePath/$file\">$file</a>"; 


Note the triple slash after file: and single slash after C:

[sorlaker]

Originally Posted by kbluhm

Ah, well alright then:

PHP Code:

echo "<a href=\"file:///C:/filePath/$file\">$file</a>"; 


Note the triple slash after file: and single slash after C:

Still can't drag it

[tempz]

Originally Posted by sorlaker

Still can't drag it

What do you want to do?

[sorlaker]

Originally Posted by tempz

What do you want to do?

I wanna drag the link to my kmplayer.

[tempz]

Originally Posted by sorlaker

I wanna drag the link to my kmplayer.

I see! I don't know what your kmplayer is but it seems like you want to drag a file from your local computer to your browser and make it play? or you want to drag a file from your local computer and set a upload script which then plays the song via a custom player? or am I not even close to what you want

[sorlaker]

Originally Posted by tempz

I see! I don't know what your kmplayer is but it seems like you want to drag a file from your local computer to your browser and make it play? or you want to drag a file from your local computer and set a upload script which then plays the song via a custom player? or am I not even close to what you want

No i'll show the php script. So that it's gonna be easier to understand what i'm trying to do.

PHP Code:

<?php
    $dir = "C:/Users/User/Downloads/";
    if ($handle = opendir($dir)){
        while(($file = readdir($handle)) !== false){
            if (preg_match("/(.*)To(.*)Love[ -]Ru(.*)[.](avi|mp4|mkv)$/i", $file)) {
                echo "<a href='file:///".$dir.rawurlencode($file)."'>$file</a>";
                echo "<br>";
            }
        }
    }else{
        echo "cannot";
    }
?>

Then i wanna drag the link to my kmplayer. One interesting thing is that i can drag the file and play through Chrome's Ctrl+J to my kmplayer but not from my webpage.

[tempz]

Getting error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '.' on line 4

line:

PHP Code:

if (preg_match("/(.*)To(.*)Love[ -]Ru(.*)[.](avi|mp4|mkv)$/i", $file)) { 


- Fixed that.

Now: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING on line 5

PHP Code:

echo "<a href='file:///".$dir.rawurlencode($file)."'>$file</a>"; 


[Fou-Lu]

Drag and drop is beyond the capabilities of a server side language regardless of if its on a local machine or not. The behaviour you are describing is a client functionality, not unlike the use of dragging an image onto your filesystem from a browser.
There is nothing you can do to force a drag and drop functionality using a server side language.