displaying contents of dir, with link to file(s)

i have a code snippet from php.net i cant get it to work 100%

[yt404]

below is the snippet that is in a file called "show.php" it works fine it displays the contents with links, however whenever i click one of the links it just opens up a list of the contents of the dir in a new window.

can anyone help me out and tell me why it isnt actually showing the files.. gifs, jpegs etc?

//heres the code

<?
$the_array = Array();
$handle = opendir('/home/www/juttuffi/midi');
while (false!== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
if ($file!= "." && $file!= "..") {
$the_array[] = $file;
}
}
closedir($handle);
sort ($the_array);
reset ($the_array);
while (list ($key, $val) = each ($the_array)) {
echo "<a href=show.php?id=$val target=_blank>$val</a><br>";
}
?>

[coopster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, yt404!

The reason you keep getting the the same listing is because you keep calling the same script,

show.php

, which is designed to give the directory listing at the beginning of the script in your

opendir

function.

If you want to show the actual file, drop the

show.php

from your href and give it the actual (http) path to the file.

[yt404]

cheers mate, i got it sorted now