HTML5 - Reading a directory of word doc files and reading the document properties without opening the file?

[iperiotto]

I have done some research but nothing concrete at this stage. At this moment I think the best approach is to read the word/pdf doc files properties (i.e Title or Tag/Keywords - I am using MS Office 2010) and select accordingly to its HTML page.

The scenario: I need to develop a 'generic' code rather than copying and pasting thousands time the following line of code

<tr>

<td> <a href="../AAA.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" onkeypress="window.open(this.href); return false;"> AAA </a>

</td>

</tr>

Imagine a folder with lots of word doc or PDF files. I need to develop a way to automatically populate a table in HTML with those files but using its documents properties (any other suggestions?) to select only the correct files to that specific HTML page. I need to look inside this folder, get just the word/pdf files that have a specific Title or Tag/Keyword from its doc properties and populate the table in HTML.

I know this seems a little odd maybe, but it's for a HTML project that requires me to automatically populate a table with the correct files (e.g. Page 1 would only have a table populated with word/pdf files with 'Page 1 title or Tag/Keyword').

Anyhow, any help or suggestions on how to approach this would really help me.

I thank your time and help in advance.

Many thanks,

IP

[Ingolme]

Javascript can't do it, but PHP can list files in a directory and read information from them.

[iperiotto]

Hi there, Thank you for your response. Would you please be able to elaborate your suggestion a little bit more?

[Ingolme]

If you're not familiar with PHP, you should read the tutorial.

 

Once you know PHP, you can go through the contents of a directory using scandir() and read files using fopen() and fread(). You can load all the content of a file at once using file_get_contents(), but if you just need to read the first few bytes of the file then fread() is much more efficient.