title: How to create a web based file manager that can read across different platforms?
body: <p>I would like to try creating a PHP web file manager that could read on my machines. As I have a couple of PC and laptops, and I would like to create a central storage to store my files, documents, etc. Hence, I would like to create a web based file manager that can fulfill my need. I know there are a handful of free and opensource web file manager out there, but I would like to create my own so that I can tweak accordingly.</p>
  
  <p>Hence I have some questions regarding how can I go about creating a file manager for such a purpose:</p>
  
  <p>1) As I have both mac and win machines, how can my file manager be able to access the different platforms, and reading shared or portable drives as well?</p>
  
  <p>2) I have done up to generating the files/folders:</p>
  
  <pre><code>// declare the folder
  $directory = "./";
  
  // prepare to read directory contents
  $dir = @opendir($directory);
  
  // loop through the items
  while ($file = readdir($dir))
  {
      // check if it is a dir
      if (is_dir($file))
      {
          echo "dir: $file &lt;br /&gt;";   
      } else {
  
          echo "file: $file &lt;br /&gt;";  
      }
  
  }
  
  closedir($dir);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I create the links for these files etc?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you very much.</p>