directory listing across network

[goal]

Hi,

I'm trying to get a directory listing of some of your remote servers (writing several web based automation application for file checking). I can use the opendir() readdir() etc. functions perfectly OK on my local machine, and even on a network share mapped to a drive on the local machine, but when pointing it to a network path, it returns nothing.

Anyone know a way around this or another method for listing the contents of a directory in such a way that I can use the returned information to retrieve file info such as date/time/size etc. (I know there are ways to do this in php, but obviously I need the filenames first of all).

Any help appreciated.

Andy.

 

[ElgisRamon]

You can set your PHP server to access some other server and use that connection like any local (in the PHP server) directory.
I hope it works...
Unix was made by and for smart people.

 

[goal]

I'm not sure what you mean by that. I can access any other machine with shares over the network, but I can't get PHP to give me any directory/file information on that share. I need to get a list of files available on that share by using PHP (and indeed the size of those files).

It may help if I said I'm running apache win32.

Thanks,
Andy.

 

[sophisticate]

How determined are you?

Unfortunately, PHP does not have the capability you're looking for (the ability to map and read Windows shares). You could, however, write a PHP DLL that dynamically mapped shares, read a directory structure or info on a particular file and returned it. Read this for more information:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q256/8/47.ASP

And this:

http://www.zend.com/apidoc

I'm sure the PHP/Open source community would be grateful seeing as how no one's done this yet (at least as far as I'm aware). Post it to

http://www.freshmeat.net

if you decide to do it.

Hope this helps,

brendanc@icehouse.net

 

[goal]

Not THAT determined - this was designed as a quick php script to help me with my work, not hinder me more!

I guess I could exec the 'net use' command and map a drive, then read it then remove it? but thats just a little more complication than I required. Funny thing is, commands such as diskfreespace() works on just the shares (no mapped drive needed) and yet these directory commands dont - strange.

Anyway, thanks for all your help.

Andy.