Using PHP to access remote directories

[tomhollis]

I am not sure this is possible with PHP being a server based language, however if anyone can tell me how to do it or point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

I am writing a picture gallery page which takes a folder as an external variable and displays all pictures in that folder. Is it possible to give a URL as a folder? If I try this I get a 'false' returned from the is_dir() function which I do not get with a local folder.

Thanks for any help

Tom

 

[DRJ478]

is_dir() will only work in your local filesystem - local in the sense of the server.

You can make connections to other servers via http and list folder contents, retrieve images etc. Read up on cURL or the PHP socket connections (

http://www.php.net/curl

and

http://www.php.net/fsockopen)

 

[tomhollis]

Thanks for the tip!

I think I am going to give it a try using opendir(path) rather than dir(path) as I was doing as the former is supposed to be abe to use URLs, opendir() can be used instead of is_dir() as well

Cheers

Tom