Browsing Mac With PHP

[NinjaJoshy]

So I recently installed xampp on my macbook in the hopes of managing some media with a gallery app I built using PHP and mySQL. Currently they script works by scanning a directory located in the /htdocs/ folder, no biggie. I was wondering if it was possible for a PHP script to access the rest of my HD? So say I was storing my media outside of my /applications/xampp/htdocs/ directory, can I access them using xampp and PHP?

[Nobbie]

Yes, PHP can access all folders (not only the foldery beyond DocumentRoot). But the folders must be readable for the User which executes Apache ("nobody" per Default, see httpd.conf).