Web Crawler Script

[Anon]

Hi,

I'm looking to make a script that will show a website's directory contents, given the URL address.

Like..

$url = "http://www.site.com/bob/";

echo "Contents:<br>";
echo Directory contents of $url;

..which would display:

Contents:
index.html
image1.gif
image2.gif
subdirectory/
pic.jpg

Get it? Can this be done? If somebody could put up some code or point me in the right direction, that would be great. Thanks!

[Anon]

You can do that only if you are running that script in that server. For example you cannot list the contents of www.yahoo.com/rs from www.google.com provided that these 2 domains are hosted on seperate servers.

So in short, you have to run the script in the same machine as the directory to show the contents and if safemode is enabled in your server, only the directories owned by you can be listed.