Opening A Local File / Folder From Within The Browser
<p>I know this has been asked several times, but I am just wondering if there is any work arounds if apache etc is running on the same pc.</p>

<p>Basically I am trying to build an intranet customer manager, it runs locally on the pc of a shop, I am building it in php and the shop basically inputs the customer details and this is saved in the local mysql database. What they also would like is the ability to add photos / diagrams to each of the customer files.</p>

<p>When a new customer is created I have got php to create a directory for them on the computer. When the shop opens the customer file, it lists all the customer details and also lists all the files inside the customers directory that the shop has added.</p>

<p>I want to add a link on the customer page so that the shop can click on it and it will open the directory in windows exporer, but I seem to have hit a brick wall as all of the modern browsers seem to stop you opening a file such as >>
file:///C:/server2go/server2go/htdocs/customermgr/customer-files/28734f6d045f8a5a93.18936710CustomerTemplateDemo2010.zip</p>

<p>Is there ANY workarounds for this at all ?, im not sure if you can use visual basic with php at all to open it ?, or any kind of work around at all, so that I can either open the file or directory from the customers page ?.</p>
