Fetch the list of shared drives using PHP on Windows?

Question

I want to display the list of shared drives connected to my system running Windows. Is there any tutorial for this?

I have tried the following code in PHP:

echo "<select id = 'drives'><option>Drives</option>";
for ($ii=66;$ii<92;$ii++) 
{
    $char = chr($ii);
    if (opendir($char.":/"))
        echo "<option>".$char."</option>";
}
echo "</select>";

Answer 1

This may help to do it under c#. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/networkshares.aspx I can't find any way to do it directly under php.

To use this with your php you may need make this as a dll and call it from php using the Win32 api functions.

Answer 2

May I ask what you need this for, so we can get a bit of context and hopefully help in some way?

Answer 3

You have to use the experimental Win32 API functions in PHP:

1. Register the API function GetDriveType using w32api-register-function.
2. After that you can call this function either by using w32api-invoke-function or by directly calling GetDriveType. It depends on your PHP version. (See the user contributed note at the bottom of the documentation of w32api-invoke-function!)
3. Check the return value if it is DRIVE_REMOTE. You can find the required parameters and the list of other return values at the MSDN documentation of GetDriveType.