[twincepto]

I have a folder called "videos" which contain 20-30 small videos, inside this folder is another folder called "info" which contain an image and a text file for each of the videos and with the same filename.

What I'm looking to do is to make a .html file which contain somekind of script that will read the files in the directories and list all the videos with the image and the information in the text file and a link that will launch the video to be played by a media player...

Does anyone know of a simple and quick way to do this?

Also I'm hoping this can be done with a script language that doesn't require me running a webserver...

[pyr0t3chnician]

HTML and javascript alone might not cut it for what you want. You would probably need to use some sort of ActiveX script to do what you are looking for. I can't help you for that, but if you want to do the webserver version (install XAMPP or WAMP or whatever first), here is the PHP. I grabbed a bunch of snippets off the web and added some code to make this. It may work, it may not. You may have to tweak it, but it should be the very basic version to get the job done. Let me know.

PHP Code:

function dirList ($directory) 
{

    // create an array to hold directory list
    $results = array();

    // create a handler for the directory
    $handler = opendir($directory);

    // keep going until all files in directory have been read
    while ($file = readdir($handler)) {

        // if $file isn't this directory or its parent, 
        // add it to the results array
        if ($file != '.' && $file != '..')
            $results[] = substr($file,0,(strlen($file)-4));// the file name minus the ".jpg" 
    }

    // tidy up: close the handler
    closedir($handler);

    // done!
    return $results;

}

$moviedirectory="/movies/";
$infodirectory="/movies/info/";
$pictype=".jpg";//picture type
$info=".txt";//file type for the info files
$moviefile=".avi";//movie file type
$list=dirList($moviedirectory);
echo "<table>";
foreach($list as $file)
{
     echo"<tr>";
     //display image
     echo"<td><img src='".$infodirectory.$file.$pictype."'></td>";
     //get info file text
     $myFile = $infodirectory.$file.$info;
     $fh = fopen($myFile, 'r');
     $theData = fread($fh, filesize($myFile));
     fclose($fh);
     echo "<td>".$theData."</td>";
     //The movie file link
     echo "<td><a href='".$moviedirectory.$file.$movie."'>Movie Link</a></td>";
     echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>"; 

[twincepto]

Thanks for the PHP version pyr0t3chnician, like I said not what I'm looking for... but at least its a backup option if nothing else works out. The things is I'm just running this locally not on the web... so running a webserver for this simple task is kind of overkill and somewhat a bother

Another thought - instead of making this dynamic html page with some sort of script, perhaps I could use batch or vbscript or something to output a static html page? Now I would have to run the script everytime I updated stuff... but still a better solution right?