I tried to search for this but couldnt' find it. I'm hoping there is a simple way to do this. I need to be able to display a list of web displayable pages (htm, php etc extentions) I dont' create these files nor do I know what files will be in the directory. I have the route set as such: (please bear with me I am very new to laravel if I mess up I'm sorry)

Route::get('tools', function() { return View::make('tools/index'); });

when I go to /tools I get a list of links:in the views/tools directory there are files (four for now to test) hello.htm, test.php and index.blade.php (and test.junk for verifying I'm only getting the files I want listed

the index.blade.php has the following:

<?php $dir = './tools/'; $files1 = scandir($dir); echo "<br>"; foreach($files1 as $files){ if (strpos($files, ".htm") or strpos($files, ".php")){ echo "<a href='./$files'>$files</a><br>"; } } it all looks very nice. however if I click on the htm file I get a oops something happened error and if I click on the php file I get a no file loaded error for php... Anyone have a suggestion? Again I'm new to laravel, I was wondering if the answer might be in the way routes are built.. but I really have no clue.