How to get the filenames of a directory in a diferrent host?

[mikek12004]

I want to take all filenames inside a specific folder and do some stuff with them. When the Processing script was inside the same server-host I used

$msg=glob($newpath."/*.flv")

where newpath the directory each time in use but now I have moves the flv to a faster server and wish to maitaim the script in the old one (mainly because the database resides also there) glod will not work with a url. Do you know any solution?

[code green]

You could try opendir and readdir

[mikek12004]

Found another way around. Made a script within the remote server which takes all the filenames of a directory and writes them in a txt. Then from my page call this reote script and then get the created txt with hte file() which takes remote files (as long as you have enabled the corresponding variables in php.ini)

[xNephilimx]

mikek12004 you can't access the filesystem of another server as you where on the same one, what you can do is, suck it up and move the db and the script to your new server, which would be the easiest and fastest way to do it, move a db is really not complicated at all.
Other thing you can do is make a script in the new server that outputs the contents of the flv file as plain text (readfile or some other function, maybe you can base64+chunk_split encode it) and in your old server make a script that gets that with cURL, then save that contents as an flv file and do all the stuff you need with the script you already have.

See what suit's you best, my recommendation is the first one.