Development How do I change the appearance of an Apache directory?

As the title says (but I may have worded it wrong), I want to be able to change the appearance of a web directory, for example this.

Is there a way of calling it within a webpage and applying formatting to it? As that seems to be the most logical way. I could write an index.html page for the directory and manually input all of the links to the files, but I want it to update itself, as and when files are deleted/added. Does this make sense? Any ideas?

 

I have a very basic PHP page which lists all the files in a directory (non recursive) and has small image previews. I can send it to you if you want.

I'm working on a way to make it 403 but its not working right.

 

If you could Doug, I would appreciate it. It'll be to simply display links to .pdf files from a directory. [matt at slickhouse dot com]

 

I'm getting the following PHP error:

Code:

Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /.../example/index.php on line 10

with line 10 being

PHP:

$this->dir = ".";

Any ideas? I feel like an idiot at times...

 

Weird, the exact same file works on my site

http://www.voidedwarranty.co.uk/Photos/

trying putting @ infront of the $

 

That gives me a blank page.

 

If only suppressing fatal errors made them go away

@ Lazlow - Search for 'icons' in your httpd.conf/apache.conf. I think directtory contains the icons you see. Not sure about a custom index.html and I don't have an apache install available at the mo to check.

 

I ended up with the following:

PHP:

<?php
if ($handle = opendir('files/')) {
   while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
       if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
              echo '<span class="links"><p><a href="http://test.slickhouse.com/newsletter/files/'.$file.'">'.substr($dir,strpos($dir,"files/")+1).$file."</a></p></span>";
       }
   }
   closedir($handle);
}
?>

It's messy, but uses the opendir() function and works well for what I needed.