Hi, I have a couple OScommerce sites so I am by no means a webmaster

However I am looking into expanding into a downloadable library for my customers, Theres about 2500 files though! Obviously It would take MONTHS to make individual HTML links to them and create a page like that, there must be a easy way, I do not know much at ALL about databases so I assume this is what people use for this task? My Host does have MYSQL...

Let me give you an example of a page that might give you an understanding of what I need. On this guys page you can see he has a nice list of games or whatever, I want the same type setup only for my ebook manuals, I doubt he sat there and typed all those in individually right? Heres the page example http://doperoms.com/roms/32x.html

Thanks for your response and taking the time for a new guy.

I'd recommend using a database for this. Since you have this stuff already somewhere, you'll want to write a script to automatically insert that information into the database and then edit the information as needed.

I do not know much at ALL about databases so I assume this is what people use for this task

Yep, but the database is only ONE part of the process, you also need server side code to query the database and display the information in HTML code.

A simple scandir script would suffice. http://uk3.php.net/scandir

Something like below - will scan a specific directory and print out each file as a link.

PHP Code:

 <?php 
function listDirectory ($dir){
$list = scandir($dir);
$i = 0;
$num = count($list);
while($i < $num){
print "<a href=\"$dir/$list[$i]\">$list[$i]</a><br />";
$i++;
}
}

echo listDirectory("images");// substitute images for the directory to list
?>

maxximus's code is for PHP 5 only, so if you're working on PHP 4...well, upgrade to PHP 5!

maxximus, thanks a ton, that is awesome! when I get a moment I will play with it and let you know