Re: Re: File or directory?

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:33:07 +0100, ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk (Ashley Sheridan) wrote: >On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 09:56 +0200, Ralph Deffke wrote: >> can u upload ur own files ? >> can u create a directory ? Yes. >> are u using a ftp client ? No; I'm using straight PHP FTP >> >> >> "Clancy" <clancy_1@cybec.com.au> wrote in message >> news:kjhc85hpub7drihgappifphcboolt9udmc@4ax.com... >> > I have just got access to a new server, and am playing with >> upload/download procedures. I >> > looked in the root directory, and see several objects which I assume to be >> directories. >> > However I was surprised to find there does not appear to be any command to >> determine if an >> > object is a file or directory, either in PHP FTP or plain FTP. I could >> try to change to >> > them, or download them, but this seems overkill. Am I overlooking >> something obvious? >> >> >> >That answer doesn't seem to quite come close even to answering the op >question. > >Have you looked at ftp_rawlist which returns a detailed list of files, >along with their permissions and directory flags? Or you could use >ftp_size to determine the size of a file, which should be nothing for a >directory. Thanks, Yes; I found ftp_rawlist eventually, but I still haven't found a definition of the return code, though I think I know most of it. I guess that even a null file will hve some length? I will probably use the leading 'd' in the return code to test for directories.. (And I spent a long time trying to work out how 'drwxr-xr-x 2 riordan riordan 512 Jul 31 06:40 cgi-bin' could contain lots of spaces, before I remembered that, as a result of one of the weirder design decisions, HTML suppresses trailing spaces.)