File names on a different server

[vikramy]

Hi,

 

I am a bit new to php and need some help. This is my situation.

 

I have lots of images on a different sever. And my website is running on a different server. So my code on my website should get the image name from that server and should display it.

 

Can any one help me? Thanks a lot.

 

 

 

[RichardRotterdam]

Do you want want to display an image where you know the name of or do need to fetch the image names from a server folder? Or is your situation completely different?

And what type of server are you storing the names on?

[vikramy]

Thanks for your reply.

 

I need to fetch the image names. Its also a webserver.

[RichardRotterdam]

on that webserver where you store the images, can't you use a script that will output the image names?

[vikramy]

Thanks again..

 

I am very poor in explaining though.. I will try again.

Users can just see my website. So if they visit say home page of my site, I need to show list of images with their corresponding image name. So those images are in a different web server.

 

So the code needs to be in my website server.

 

 

[simonrs]

There is no way really that you can read the contents of a directory on another server. That would essentially be hacking.

 

You would need some kind of compliance from the other server, like a script on there that you could remotely call that would output the filenames in a directory.

[vikramy]

Thanks. Will re think about it..

[roopurt18]

There is no way really that you can read the contents of a directory on another server. That would essentially be hacking.

 

You would need some kind of compliance from the other server, like a script on there that you could remotely call that would output the filenames in a directory.

 

In this instance that may not be applicable.

 

Let's say the OP's site is: http://www.op.com/page.php

Let's say the images reside publicly in: http://www.somedomain.com/images

 

Some of the directory functions make work already with URL locations.

 

Or the OP might be able to say:

$page = file_get_contents( 'http://www.somedomain.com/images' ); print_r( $page ); 

If file_get_contents() works, the OP could parse the page for the image names.

 

The worst case scenario is opening the URL http://www.somedomain.com/images with either HttpRequest or cURL and parsing those results.

[vikramy]

[pre]Some of the directory functions make work already with URL locations.[/pre]

 

Can any one tell me more about this.

 

Thanks a ton.

 

file_get_contents() worked!! So I can use , preg_match_all  right? Is there a better way?

Any one see any downside of this?

 

[roopurt18]

Can any one tell me more about this.

There already exist functions to iterate over directories.  They might work with URLs the same way that file_get_contents() worked.

 

What was the result from file_get_contents()?

[vikramy]

Everything that http://www.somedomain.com/images has.

 

But after some time I spent with this, I found out that I can get file names from database! Don't say I wasted your time... I learnt a lot... Thank you..

 

I was believing every image that was other server needs to be displayed.. But it was not the case.. there is some consistent data in our table!! 

 

Thanks every one..