Re: remote directorylisting

Thanks! Thanks for your answer. It was like I thought. I have to write my own parse code. Håkon (Hakon) > 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?