iperiotto Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Javascript can't do it, but PHP can list files in a directory and read information from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iperiotto Posted March 24, 2015 Author Share Posted March 24, 2015 Hi there, Thank you for your response. Would you please be able to elaborate your suggestion a little bit more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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