Re: remote directorylisting

Well, This is not really possible, unless the server itself allows you to do the listing. One way and after the last condition you can use fopen("sever.com/dir_to_list/") then fread() it and then parse the content in order to get filename, date, ... "Håkon grønning" <Hakon.Gronning@iet.hist.no> wrote in message news:3C0DEB31.96BDA532@iet.hist.no... > Does anybody know how to list a remote directory to get > all the filenames into for example an array? > > This is easily done on your local server by: > $handle=opendir('./images/'); > while (($file = readdir($handle))!==false) { > $filelist[] = $file; > } > closedir($handle); > > However, opendir and readdir does not work on remote > servers: > $handle=opendir('http://www.somesite.net/images/'); > > So, does anybody know how to do this. > I know I can read remote files (directory listing) and then > To analyse this for filenames with a lot of string manipulation > operations. Is there a simpler approach? > > > Håkon Grønning > E-mail: hakon.gronning@iet.hist.no