quick and dirty web server directory php

DISCLAIMER: I sometimes use this blog as a general repository for my future self to refer to, and one indication code might be worth sticking here is when I go to look for it. But it's not always best-practice or production-ready stuff.

Anyway, that disclaimer out of the way... sometimes I use the default Apache directory viewer, but other times I want more fine grained control over its appearance or what files get included. This PHP code seems to work pretty well for me. (The escaping might be a little wonky, but just replacing single quotes worked while urlencode() did not.)

<style>

  body{

    font-size:30px;

  }

  a{

    padding-bottom:10px;

    display:block;

    text-decoration:none;

  }

</style>

<?php

  $path = ".";

  $blacklist = array("index.php");

  // get everything except hidden files

  $files = preg_grep('/^([^.])/', scandir($path)); 

  foreach ($files as $file) {

    if (!in_array($file, $blacklist)) {

      $url = str_replace("'","&#39;",$file);

      echo "<a href='$url'>$file</a>\n"; 

    }

  }

?>