Downloading files with php using http

[Asheeown]

What I need to do is give the php script a url to a certain website "http://www.website.com"

 

Then I need it to find the contents of that directory...can php do that?

[Asheeown]

So thats a no to my question?

[Unholy Prayer]

You mean like a custom page for a directory that has no index page?

[Asheeown]

No...I'm on one server, the files I need are on another, another file gets imported to the directory I'm looking at every 15 minutes...I need a function that can get the contents of that directory

[Hypnos]

Is there an index file in the directory? If so, how would it know what files to get?

 

This would be a lot easier over FTP with a console FTP client and a shell script/batch file. Do you have FTP access to the directory?

[Asheeown]

No FTP access thats why im doing it this way

[Asheeown]

Function is given an external website directory e.g. (www.example.com/test/)  and returns the files in that directory

 

 

I'm looking for a function to do that

[Asheeown]

Is this even possible?

[Hypnos]

You didn't answer my first question.

 

PHP fsock with HTTP isn't any more special than your web browser. If you go to the url and see a webpage, then PHP will see a webpage. If there isn't an index file and you can see all the files in your browser, then PHP will see that file list.

 

If there is an index, then you can not do this. Not unless you know the file names ahead of time (or you scrape the page for file names).

[Asheeown]

Okay, it doesn't have an index page, how can i scape the page

[Hypnos]

The index page that apache/IIS generates is a HTML document. Scrape it just like one.

 

<?php
$page = file_get_contents("http://www.kodb.info/patches/");

$page = strip_tags($page);

echo $page;

 

You can explode that by newline, then run through it and remove the stuff you don't want (anything other than file names).

 

Once you get it down to an array of file names, then you can start working on the downloading part.

[Asheeown]

I have a lot of extra stuff in that variable that isn't needed such as the Index of and server info at the bottom.  Anyway I can get rid of that?

[Hypnos]

Use the string functions.

 

This would be a start to my example page:

<?php
$page = file_get_contents("http://www.kodb.info/patches/");
$page = substr($page, strpos($page, "<HR>")); 
$page = substr($page, strpos($page, " - ") + 4); 
$page = substr($page, 0, strpos($page, "Apache/1.3.37 Server at www.kodb.info Port 80"));
$page = strip_tags($page);
$page = trim($page);

echo $page;