Can PHP do this???

I have a possibly n00bish question. Can .php be used in this situation:

I have several directories that have tons of reports being placed there every night. I want a way to dynamically generate a report listing. I know I can just list the reports by allowing the directory to list contents. What I am wanting to do is allow the users to search the directories for specific reports, list most recent reports, and do it all in a way that is easier than scrolling thru hundreds of reports looking for dates and report names.

Can this be done?

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Noah

You should be able to. What you might want to try is dumping the directory listing into a database and building a search function to search through the database, then use the pathing that is stored to open the file..

Good idea, any suggestions on how to dump the file listing into a database? Or even a way to index the files for searching?

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noahl

bump...any suggestions on how to index a directory of files on NT 4.0???