Generating URL's on the fly

sgtpepper

How would you approach this project?

I am uploading mp3's to a streaming server via FTP.

To play the MP3's the user is directed to a specific http url.

How can I use PHP to dynamically look into the FTP folder and generate the HTML url automatically based on each file is sees in the FTP directory?

The ftp, http, and php code will all be living on different servers.....

Thanks for the help....

bpat1434

Well, once you ftp into the directory, just use [man]ftp_nlist/man to get a list of files, and sub-directories, in the directory. Then, if you know the URL to that folder, it's just a matter of:

$list = ftp_nlist($ftp, $dir);

foreach($list as $file)
{
  if(!is_dir($file) && !is_dir($dir.'/'.$list))
    echo '<a href="http://www.domain.com/', $dir, '/', $file, '">', $file, '</a>';
}

That's a very basic example. You'd have to tweak it as necessary.

EDIT:
It's also possible to use [man]ftp_rawlist/man to get detailed information about the file(s) and then using the [man]substr/man function you can easily tell if it's a directory or not.

sgtpepper

Thanks for the example......what is the proper way to setup the ftp connection?

bpat1434

If you look at the examples on php.net, it's something like:

<?php

//        ftp_connect('host', port, timeout);
if(false === ($ftp = ftp_connect('ftp.host.com', 21, 30)))
    die('Unable to connect to host');

if(false === @ftp_login($ftp, 'username', 'password'))
    die('Unable to log in.  Username or password incorrect.');

From that point, you should be on to changing the directory ([man]ftp_chdir/man), listing (see above posts) and all that. Take a look at the PHP Manual dealing with FTP Functions