The purpose of this tool is to provide the convenience to browse your code or notes from your browser, having the directory tree structure in a left column, and the text of the file you select on the right. It supports displaying Markdown format!
You will need a web server that can execute PHP code to start on your PC. PHP provides a built-in one, which is ideal for the job.
The tool was designed to have all code in a single file index.php, making it convenient to install/port at the root of the directory tree that you want to browse. To install, you can get the library either by using git clone https://github.com/ilias-sp/php-directory-explorer.git, or downloading the provided zip file, or just download the index.php file, by clicking here.
You can integrate the directory tree you want to browse with a PHP capable web server like apache, or - the proposed way - just start an instance of the built-in web server PHP provides. Assuming you have PHP installed on your PC, open a shell at the directory you wish to explore and run:
php -S 0.0.0.0:33333 -t .
Alternatively, you can use the scripts supplied in scripts folder. First, you will have to copy the one for your OS to the root folder where the index.php resides.
The above will start a web server that listens on port 33333. To browse it via your web browser, head on to:
php-directory-explorer uses erusev/parsedown markdown parser to properly display Markdown files, and websemantics/file-icons (forked version of it) for displaying icons for common file types. To install both libraries, download the composer.json file from this repository in the folder where the index.php resides, and install by running:
composer install
