how to auto download from a http site using php

[jonathan184]

Hi I am trying to list the files before trying to do a dowload but the below code will only work on local dirs.

Does anyone know how i could get the listing of a http site.
You could take a look at the site to see the files and dir listings I am trying to get.
speedownload.na i.com - /products/commonupdater/

<?php
if ($handle = opendir('http://speedownload.nai.com/products/commonupdater')) {
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
        if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
            echo "$file\n";
        }
    }
    closedir($handle);
}
?>

[xNephilimx]

you can't access the filesystem of a remote server, you should have a script in the remote server to output the list, and calling it with curl or fopen from your server.

[jonathan184]

How about if I do screen scraping of the listing then parse for the filenames and do a wget to download the files. Is there something I could use for screen scraping?

[Niheel]

wget, save the file and then parse it

[xNephilimx]

yep, you can use wget with system or exect php functions

[pbmods]

Heya, Jonathan.

If you can log into the remote server using FTP (PHP: FTP - Manual), you could issue an ls command (PHP: ftp_nlist - Manual) and get your listing that way.