Simple script for showing contents of a folder

Long long time ago in a galaxy far far away I wrote a very simple PHP script, that I usually put into index.php of a directory, which contents I’d like to print out to the browser. I’m using this solutions on all servers and hostings which has Apache-based directory listings disabled and thus are showing empty page or error screen, if folder does not contain index.php.

Here’s the code:

[code language=”php”]
$dir = getcwd();

if (is_dir($dir))
{
if ($dh = opendir($dir))
{
echo(‘Files in this folder:<ul>’);

while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false)
{
if ($file != ‘.’ && $file != ‘..’ && $file != ‘index.php’)
{
echo(‘<li><a href="’.$file.’">’.$file.'</a></li>’);
}
}
closedir($dh);

echo(”);
}
}
[/code]

That’s pretty much everything, folks!

Is it possible to convert working pure PHP appication to Yii

I was once asked, if it would be possible to do step-by-step conversion of a large project written in pure PHP into Yii. In my opinion, it is possible, but absolutely not worth it.

Most professional frameworks are complete opposite to “pure PHP” code in actually all areas. Code is separated most times (i.e. into model, view and controller in MVC design pattern) and uses mostly framework classes or code. I would even say, that writing an application in some framework means using only 10-20% of pure PHP code and doing rest purely on framework classes, extensions, controllers etc.

In other words: porting a “pure PHP” application into framework code would mean writing that application from scratch. I’m not sure, if you would be able to reuse more than 5% of your original source code?

Installing SVN on QNAP using IPKG (Optware)

This article is based on information provided by QPKG package created for SVN by noski and on QNAP Wiki article about SVN and of course a piece of my experience. But since SVN is relatively easily to install by-hand (so you don’t actually need QPKG package) and since Wiki article about SVN is outdated / contains some garbage (directory /share does note belong to /dev/ram!), I decided to write my own guide.

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