opendir a directory on another machine

[GRUMBLE]

hi,

why isnt it possible to do something like this:

$mydir=opendir("http://myserver.com/directory/");

is there any way to get the contents of a directory on another server?

thanks!

[Natty_Dreadlock]

actually that's not possible since http does not support directory operations but only commands to access or change one file... maybe u can get ftp or webdav access to the machine, although I did not check whether there's webdav support available for php. The only possibility to list a directory's content in php is to enable the correspondin apache option in a .htaccess file and parse the html output, however, that's only possible if u can change some options on the remote machine.