FTP isfile and isdir ?

I'm working on a little ftp browsing script...

I need to know if there is a way to check if something in an ftp folder is a file or a directory.



The only problem is, if you click on a file, it tries to load up a new directory. So I need to check to see if it's a file or a directory. any help?

maybe you could parse the return values from ftp_rawlist(). there are some good user comments on that page.

the annotated manual kicks much booty.

I figured that it may come down to that, I was kind of hoping there would be an isfile and isdir though

Hi,
Probably best to use ftp_rawlist() like what has been mentioned already as nlist() can not handel spaces in the directory name. As far as if there is a comand for seeing if the content in a folder is a file or a directory then there is such a command.. follow the links below. They are is_dir() and is_file() hope this helps :-)

http://nz2.php.net/manual/en/function.is-dir.php

http://nz2.php.net/manual/en/function.is-file.php

if your looking for a nice piece of software to prase ftp_rawlist() try this.

function dirList ($connection, $dir_path){ // This function will sort dir struture into files and folders
$list = ftp_rawlist($connection, $dir_path); // Returns a list of files and folders
//_________sort into two arrays ...files/folders ________
global $folders;
global $files;
for($i=0;$i<sizeof($list);$i++){
list($permissions,$next)=split(" ",$list[$i],2);
list($num,$next)=split(" ",cutspaces($next),2);
list($owner,$next)=split(" ",cutspaces($next),2);
list($group,$next)=split(" ",cutspaces($next),2);
list($size,$next)=split(" ",cutspaces($next),2);
list($month,$next)=split(" ",cutspaces($next),2);
list($day,$next)=split(" ",cutspaces($next),2);
list($year_time,$filename)=split(" ",cutspaces($next),2);
if($filename!="." && $filename!=".."){
if(substr($permissions,0,1)=="d"){
$folders[]=$filename;
}
else {
$files[]=$filename;

}
}
}
sort($folders);
sort($files);
}

I know there are is_file and is_dir functions. but that won't work if I'm trying to see if an FTP folder has a file or dir.

I figured it out though.. quite interesting too.

Yes your right :-)

Nice piece of coding to .. well done just watch the directory names with using ftp_nlist. I got caught out with this and it took me a while to figure out