FTP routine

Hi, i'm making a script to donwload files from a ftp server to the server hosting the script, but i don't know how to download all the files from a directory. I'm using the file system functions to conect to the ftp server, because the ftp functions in php does not always work, and, actually they suck

       @fputs($conexion,"RETR file.zip\r\n");

echo @fgets($conexion,256); echo "<br>" ; I think that works, but i don't know how to retrive all the files from a directory. Also (ppff!! thats a lot of questions) some people say i can resume these downloads when i use fsockopen...is that true?. Oh yes, i almost forgot, when downloading large files, the script dies, is there a chance to let the script die, but the process can go on, and when it's finished send a email or something telling me that it transfer the files? Thx :D PD: English is not my languaje, sorry ñ_ñ _________________________________________________________________ MSN. Más Útil cada Día. http://www.msn.es/intmap/