If your web server to supports .htaccess files and you can specify “Options” from within your .htaccess file, then the following is a quick 1 line solution to your file listing needs.
So you just uploaded a tun of pictures to a web directory and you want a list of all the images. Since the only types of files in the directory are images, the security risk of displaying the list diminishes. In actuality, the list of images can be quite useful especially when trying to find a specific one.
The answer, create a 1 line .htaccess file with the following: Options Indexes
If you don’t have control over your apache configuration files and this option is not available to you, don’t fret. Â Chris Snyder created an excellent php script that allows you to list the contents of a web directory.
Link: http://chxo.com/scripts/image-list.php
This script is very useful, I’ve customized it for my subversion repository in order to display a list of repositories in the root of the subversion web server.
