a function to get file names ?

VisionsOfCody

I have a problem with a directory containing a few hundred pdf files - I wanted to back them all up to my local machine but a lot of them won't transfert by ftp - only by http

when i looked at their file permissions, the one that i can't get by ftp have a permission set to 0600

what i want to do is to change all of the pdf files in the directory to 0777 - but when i try to do this with Dreamweaver or FileZilla it doesn't work - it just gets refused

so ... I need to write a small php file that will use chmod() for all the files in the directory that i can upload to the server - but i don't know how to write the code to get the names of all the pdf files

is there a simple function for this ?

thanks

VisionsOfCody

In fact I've found a functoin to do this here : http://www.lixlpixel.org/recursive_function/php/recursive_directory_scan/

but when i run it on the server I get an error that the operation is not permitted for all the files that I was unable to get via ftp - so it doesn't seem to be a permissions problem

does anyone have an idea why i can't perform functions on some of these files - though I can access them in a browser ?