Lists files in "http" path

[berrberr]

Hello everyone, I just got a quick question. Basically what I want to do is scan a directory and write a bit of info to a database based on the files in that directory. Now that is easy to do, and I know how to do it. The thing I am having problem is getting it to scan a directory like "http://google.com/files/". That directory is browseable so thats not an issue. Im guessing that there is a different command to browse a directory with an "http" path. Can anyone help me out please? Thanks,

berrberr

[bradgrafelman]

berrberr wrote:

Im guessing that there is a different command to browse a directory with an "http" path.

Eh.. sort of, in the sense that yes, you can have PHP parse the directory listing for file names, but no, you're not "browsing" the directory.

What you're doing is simply retrieving the HTML content of the directory listing (as if you were harvesting data from any other HTML page). Using regular expression syntax, you should be able to match file names (since the directory listing is presumably generated by the server, which should therefore have a stable format... hopefully).