Finding Hostname of Browser Client.

I have a friend with a PhotoLibrary web site. I am trying to automate some of his work. I tried to create a PHP script/program? that would check for missing files and upload. I am testing on my laptop with loopback. It all works if I give the ftp routine that does the ftp_connect a hostname i.e. Localhost or the name of my machine. But if I use 127.0.0.1 it fails to connect. Ideally I would like to use $HTTP_REMOTE_ADDR to set the address but as it insist on the name I am stuck. Ideally I would like to run the script and have the ftp server on the machine that he uses to dial into the ISP i.e. Dynamically allocated IP address. I suspect that his ISP is not going to resolve an address to such a machine. Any ideas ? Thanks Keith -- Keith , Jenny & Family Sloan keith.sloan@ukonline.co.uk http://web.ukonline.co.uk/keith.sloan/