PROS! getting info from a directory on another server?

brianb

Hello Pros,

Ok, here's my problem...

I have one UNIX server that holds my main site. This server stores all of my MySQL databases and tables.

Just as well, I have a completely different UNIX server in a different location which I am going to start using as my IMAGE server.

Basically, I have created a gallery script which searches the contents of a said directory and returns values based upon what it finds. Then it prints a nice table for me and spits out my images.

In my script I set my variable like so:

$location = "/home/mysite/public_html/images/01";

This let's the PHP know the path to the images I'm calling.

I want to create the script so that I can have something like this as well:

$location = "http://www.imageserversite.com/some/images/are/here/";

Summary:
Is there a way for my PHP to search the contents of an off-site directory?

Could I possibly create a helper script to host on the off-site server to accomplish this task?

Recap:
- All images will be stored on the off-site server
- The data stored in MySQL letting the script know where the images are located is hosted on the home server.

Any coding examples or ideas are greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

brianb

Any ideas on this one?

diego25

Is there a way for my PHP to search the contents of an off-site directory?

No, the HTTP protocol doesn't support this. But your web server might be able to spit out a HTML page, if it can't find the index file, with all the files in the current directory. So, if your server does that, you could parse that HTML file for the files. Otherwise, you'd have to go with a helper script.

Diego

brianb

Hmmmm....

Ok, what if the server is spitting out a list of files when no index file is present? Think I'd be able to that?

Plus, if I was going to go with a helper script, any ideas as to what I'd need it to do?

Trying to find a solution!

Thanks!

PyroX

make a 'helper script' that indexes your images so they can be 'read' from the other machine.

Something like this.

Image Server index.php:

<?
$handle=opendir('.');
while($file=readdir($handle)){
$ext=split("\.",$file);
if(eregi("gif",$ext[count($ext)-1]) || eregi("jpg",$ext[count($ext)-1])){
echo "$file,".filesize($file).";";
}
}
?>


the Server 'reader':
<?
$imagearray=explode(";",implode("",file("http://yoururl.com/imagpath/")));
?>

That would give you an array of your images ( gif || jpg ) and their filesize.

THat should get you going.

brianb

Thanks a million for the example!

Can't seem to get the code to work though....

I'm attaching the script for reference....please help!

Thanks.

brianb

Can anyone help with getting this script working?