Always show the Folders in FileBrowser

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• Mark Vanilla Staff

  August 2005

  I know exactly what you'd need to do, but I don't have enough time to get into it right now - I'll bookmark the thread and come back to it later.

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• Phunky

  August 2005

  Thank you, shall come back later then :D

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• Mark Vanilla Staff

  August 2005 edited August 2005

  If I get swamped today and forget to come back here, feel free to remind me by bumping this thread.

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• Mark Vanilla Staff

  August 2005 edited August 2005

  On line 1071 of the latest release of the filebrowser's index.php file, I get a handle for the folder that is currently being browsed and begin looping through the contents of the folder. As I loop through the contents of the folder, if the item is a folder, I add it to the folder collection, and if it's something else, I add it to a different appropriate collection:

  <strong>// Get a handle on the folder being browsed
  $FolderHandle = opendir($Config->CurrentBrowsingDirectory);</strong>
  $CurrentExtension = "";
  $RecordItem = true;
  $ThumbnailCollection = array();
  while (false !== ($Item = readdir($FolderHandle))) {
     $RecordItem = true;
     if ($Item == "."
         || $Item == ".."
         || in_array($Config->CurrentBrowsingDirectory."/".$Item, $Config->FullyQualifiedHideFiles)
     ) $RecordItem = false;
     if ($Config->DisplayHiddenFiles == "false" && $Item == $Config->SelfUrl) $RecordItem = false;
     if ($Config->DisplayHiddenFiles == "false" && substr($Item,0,1) == "_") $RecordItem = false;
     if ($Config->UseThumbnails && substr($Item,0,7) == "_thumb.") {
        // Don't record the current item in the regular file collections, dump it into a thumbnail collection
        $RecordItem = false;
        $ThumbnailCollection[] = $Item;
     }
     
     if ($RecordItem) {
        <strong>// If dealing with a folder, add it to the folder collection
        if (is_dir($Config->CurrentBrowsingDirectory."/".$Item)) {
           $FolderCollection[] = $Item;</strong>
        // If not dealing with a folder, add it to the proper file collection
        } else {
           // Match the current file extension with an item in the extension library
           $CurrentExtension = GetExtension($Item);
           $KeyMatch = @$ExtensionLibrary[$CurrentExtension];
           
           // If the match came back positive, add the file to the collection
           if ($KeyMatch) {
              $FileCollections[$ExtensionLibrary[$CurrentExtension][0]]->AddFile($Item, filesize($Config->CurrentBrowsingDirectory."/".$Item), filemtime($Config->CurrentBrowsingDirectory."/".$Item), $ExtensionLibrary[$CurrentExtension][1]);
              
           // If the match came back false, attempt to add this file to the wildcard group
           } elseif ($ExtensionLibrary["*"]) {
              $FileCollections[$ExtensionLibrary["*"][0]]->AddFile($Item, filesize($Config->CurrentBrowsingDirectory."/".$Item), filemtime($Config->CurrentBrowsingDirectory."/".$Item), $ExtensionLibrary["*"][1], $ExtensionLibrary["*"]);
                 
           } // Ignore all other files
        }
     }
  }

  So, as you can see (check out the stuff in bold), I only ever look at the directory currently being browsed. In order to list all of the directories underneath this one, you'll need to add another chunk of code below this that now gets a handle on each of the items in the FolderCollection array and get's THEIR contents. You'll only be interested in the folders within them, and you'll need to add each of those to your foldercollection as well (properly related to the current browsing directory, of course).
  
  After that, there is still a big chunk of work to be done with making sure that when you click a folder, it takes you to that folder. It's not a small task, but it is possible, of course.

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