SAP & PHP together: Application Server Directory & File Browser For quite some in SDN I could hear a lot about a new topic Scripting Languages (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/weblogs/topic/47). Wondering what it was, I just explored a bit more than usual for sometime. I would say it was a very good experience. I always wished to develop web applications that work with SAP, and this gave me a good chance. I started with Craig's (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.sdn.businesscard.sdnbusinesscard?u=vi...) blog about MiniWAS6.20 (Mini Me of WAS 6.20, the Saga continues....). As a common practice I landed into some trouble installing my MiniWAS6.20. I ran to the Web AS Preview Installation (verify own hostname <HOSTNAME> failed - Error) for some help. It did help me to sort out the problem. Even after successful installation I faced problem starting the server. The culprit was none other the antivirus software installed in my laptop. I don't know why it hates the icm.exe and disp+work.exe so much then it will never let them start. I always put the antivirus software to sleep whenever the MiniWAS6.20 wakes up, so that they need not fight each other again. The second big problem as a newbie in PHP was installing and configuring it to work with the web server. I tried to install PHP with Sun One Web Server, it did not work out. Then once again I was crying in the PHP Forum (Help for Installing PHP and Sun One Web Server) for some help. Finally, I got PHP installed and configured to work with Apache HTTP Server. The best part in the process was the SAPRFC installation for connecting PHP with SAP, it just went so smooth. Then what else I had a lot good examples from Craig's (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.sdn.businesscard.sdnbusinesscard?u=vi...), John Astill (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.sdn.businesscard.sdnbusinesscard?u=r5...), Alvaro (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.sdn.businesscard.sdnbusinesscard?u=nk...), Eddy (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.sdn.businesscard.sdnbusinesscard?u=hx...) and many more, which made feel comfortable working with PHP. Here is a small tool I built using PHP Object Oriented programming. This utility will help you to browse your application server files and directories, and how it is done is below, ABAP Part Structure for Directory and File details 
Structure for File contents 
Structure for File contents
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