Re: Newbie question: need to transfer directory contents fr om my local machine to my website

Jim Moseby wrote: ...

Perhaps I misunderstand what the OP wanted. I thought he was running a webserver somewhere, and that he wanted his remote webserver to be able to grab a file listing on his local machine by just visiting a webpage there.

if you ask me it wasn't very clear what the OP wanted, I was concerned that the reference to php being a 'server-side' tool/language would be confusing to the OP (or give him the wrong impression about php's capabilities). to the OP: php being serverside is only relevant in terms of using php as a webserver module; the 'client side' is the browser and php does not run inside the browser (i.e. a php website can not directly interact with anything on your own PC (unless the website lives physically on your own pc)) [actually Wez Furlong wrong a plugin for IE IIRC that allows you to use php in the same way as you might use javascript inside the browser]

Of course PHP can query the local filesystem. I thought he wanted it to query a remote filesystem. JM