originally the custom directory listing script was only designed to be used for specific folders. Thus, basically the idea was to set the custom directoy listing script as index file in these folders.

Now, concerning your request to achieve custom directory listings using a script that resides in only one location I must say that this is a bit tricky. Let’s assume you have the following folder structure:

• /root

• /root/folder1
• /root/folder2

• /root/folder2/folder2_1

Now what I understand from your comment is that you want to put your custom directory listing script in /root only and expect it to be executed when visitors try to get a directory listing for root/folder2_1 too. Correct?

If this is the case then you will have to work with mod_redirect and an additional include file. Thus, you have to redirect all requests to a base folder (e.g. /root, /root/folder1, …) to the additional include script that in return will execute the custom directory listing script residing in /root. For this to work, your .htaccess in root will have to

• – determine wheter a file or folder request has been made

• – if a file request has been made simply serve the file as usual
• – otherwise the custom directory listing script has to be executed

If a folder request has been made check if for the requested folder there exists the additional include file (referencing the custom directory listing file in /root). If this is the case simply serve it.

Based on this approach you should achieve custom directory listings for sub folder without being forced to include your original custom directory listing script in every sub folder.

Hope that helps.

I have used htaccess to auto prepend a php script thinking that it will run instead of the default directory script. but it works only for scripts like php and not for html or other extensions.

So here what i want is i want to do my custom directory listing but i don’t want to put an index.php in all folders with my custom code… whereas i want to autoprepend my custom directory listing script in htaccess but this is not working…

so i want to run my custom script for directory listing

Besides, i am in a shared hosting so i cannot modify config files. htaccess is working.

so what is the way to do a custom directory listing?

The post with modifying the system variables saved my life. It now works on 7 as it did on XP. Thanks again for the post.

to execute PdfTk from within PHP you need to call exec¹, or passthru² depending on whether you need the data returned by PdfTk or not, e.g.

< ?php exec('pdftk.exe __some_more_arguments__'); ?>
< ?php passthru('pdftk.exe __some_more_arguments__'); ?>

PHP’s exec/passthru will delegate the call to PdfTk. In case you are planning to use user defined variables in order to call PdfTk please make sure to use escapeshellarg³ or escapeshellcmd⁴ to escape them in order to prohibit malicious input.

Hope that helps.

Links
[1] http://php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php
[2] http://php.net/manual/en/function.passthru.php
[3] http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.escapeshellarg.php
[4] http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.escapeshellcmd.php

thank you

The error message you’ve posted results from Pdftk not finding libiconf2.dll in your PATH – which is nothing more than a list directories in which Windows (recursively) searches for required files.

Now to include the bin-directory in your PATH simply right click your “Computer”-icon on the desktop and select “Properties”. Then open the “Advanced System Settings” (Advanced-tab in the system properties window). There select “Environment Variables” which opens another window. In the lower area of this new window you have a list of so-called “System variables”, where you then select “Path” and click “Edit”. In the “Variable value” text field append the following text: “; C:\Program Files (x86)\pdftk\bin\” (note the “;”).

If you have installed PdfTk in a directoy different from “C:\Program Files (x86)\” simply use this path but be sure to add the “\bin\” directory to it.

Once you’ve added the bin-path to your PATH environment (and have saved your changes) you should be able to start PdfTk without any problems.

Hope that helps

thanks for your feedback. I have updated the entry to mention a problem when creating Zend_Date objects based on custom formats.

Best regards