Hi,

I wrote this function to get the file list, I tested it only with php5 with linux ftp. And works fine for me.

it will return an array with the name, type (file/folder), owner, owner_id and rights.

<?php
    function ftp_get_filelist($con, $path){
        $files = array();
        $contents = ftp_rawlist ($con, $path);
        $a = 0;

        if(count($contents)){
            foreach($contents as $line){

                preg_match("#([drwx\-]+)([\s]+)([0-9]+)([\s]+)([0-9]+)([\s]+)([a-zA-Z0-9\.]+)([\s]+)([0-9]+)([\s]+)([a-zA-Z]+)([\s ]+)([0-9]+)([\s]+)([0-9]+):([0-9]+)([\s]+)([a-zA-Z0-9\.\-\_ ]+)#si", $line, $out);

                if($out[3] != 1 && ($out[18] == "." || $out[18] == "..")){
                    // do nothing
                } else {
                    $a++;
                    $files[$a]['rights'] = $out[1];
                    $files[$a]['type'] = $out[3] == 1 ? "file":"folder";
                    $files[$a]['owner_id'] = $out[5];
                    $files[$a]['owner'] = $out[7];
                    $files[$a]['date_modified'] = $out[11]." ".$out[13] . " ".$out[13].":".$out[16]."";
                    $files[$a]['name'] = $out[18];
                }
            }
        }
        return $files;
    }
?>

Greets,

Jacob

How to get the file list in alphabetical order with all directories at the top:

<?php
$ftp_nlist = ftp_nlist($ftp_connect, ".");

//alphabetical sorting

sort($ftp_nlist);
foreach ($ftp_nlist as $v) {

//1. Size is '-1' => directory
  if (ftp_size($ftp_connect, $v) == -1) {

//output as [ directory ]
      echo "[ " . $v . " ]<br />\n";
  }
}
foreach ($ftp_nlist as $v) {

//2. Size is not '-1' => file
  if (!(ftp_size($ftp_connect, $v) == -1)) {

//output as file
      echo "" . $v . "<br />\n";
  }
}
?>

Result looks like:

[ a_mydirectory ]
[ b_mydirectory ]
[ c_mydirectory ]
...
a_myfile.htm
b_myfile.css
c_myfile.php
...

A little correction to king_killa at juggalos4life dot com's note, it isn't ftp_res, it's ftp_size.

By the way, here is a complete function that will get all the files on a server, then write them to a array.

<?php
$ftp1 = ftp_connect('ftp.nowhere1230404.foo') or die("Couldn't connect to server");
ftp_login($ftp1,'foo','bar');
ftp_pasv($ftp1, TRUE); //Passive Mode is better for this

//Get them file!
echo "Collecting Files on Neodecoder<br>";
//Set defaults just in case. PHP complains anyway if we don't.
$dir = "";

function filecollect($dir,$filelist) {
global $ftp1; //Get our ftp
$files = ftp_nlist($ftp1,$dir); //get files in directory
foreach ($files as $file) {
$isfile = ftp_size($ftp1, $file);
if($isfile == "-1") { //Is a file or directory?
  $filelist = filecollect($dir.'/'.$file,$filelist,$num); //If a folder, do a filecollect on it
}
else {
  $filelist[(count($filelist)+1)] = $file; //If not, add it as a file to the file list
}
}
return $filelist;
}

$filelist = filecollect($dir,$filelist);

echo "<pre>";
print_r($filelist);
echo "</pre>";
?>

This is really handy if your trying to transfer all the files from a ftp server to another server. Which, is why I made the script in the first place. heh..

ftp_nlist() or ftp_rawlist() takes ages then returns nothing...

If you are having this issue, you may need to enable PASV mode FTP transfers using the ftp_pasv() function.

Example...

<?php
$ftp_host = "yourFTPHost";
$ftp_user = "yourUsername";
$ftp_password = "yourPassword";

//Connect
echo "<br />Connecting to $ftp_host via FTP...";
$conn = ftp_connect($ftp_host);
$login = ftp_login($conn, $ftp_user, $ftp_password);

//
//Enable PASV ( Note: must be done after ftp_login() )
//
$mode = ftp_pasv($conn, TRUE);

//Login OK ?
if ((!$conn) || (!$login) || (!$mode)) {
   die("FTP connection has failed !");
}
echo "<br />Login Ok.<br />";

//
//Now run ftp_nlist()
//
$file_list = ftp_nlist($conn, "");
foreach ($file_list as $file)
{
  echo "<br>$file";
}

//close
ftp_close($conn);

?>

The function from nekrostar at gmx dot net does not work for me, so I've tryed to do it my way. For checking if a found file is a directory or not I use the ftp_size function.

<?php
function ftplistdir($conn_id, $dir){
    $fold_no = array(".", "..", "cgi-data", "comp", "zuern", "counter");
    $list = ftp_nlist( $conn_id, $dir );
    foreach($list as $file){
        if (ftp_size($conn_id, $dir ."/".$file)== -1){
            if (in_array($file, $fold_no)) {
                print $file ." Ueberspringe ausgeschlossenes Verzeichnis.<br>";
            } else {
                $geslist[]= $dir ."/". $file;
                $temp=ftplistdir($conn_id, $dir ."/". $file);
                $geslist=array_merge($geslist, $temp);
            }
        }else{
            $geslist[]= $dir ."/". $file;
        }
    }
    return $geslist;
}
?>
I hope it's usefull for anyone
Robert

Recursive directory delete using ftp_nlist() ...
<?php
function ftp_rmdirr($path, $handle)
    {
    if (!(@ftp_rmdir($handle, $path) || @ftp_delete($handle, $path)))
        {
        $list = ftp_nlist($handle, $path);
        if (!empty($list))
            foreach($list as $value)
                ftp_rmdirr($value, $handle);
        }
    @ftp_rmdir($handle, $path);
    }
?>
It would be very useful if it was built into php. After all most of the time we want to remove non empty directories too. I bet everyone out there dealing with the file system had faced this problem.

To use custom LIST - flags, for example
LIST -aF ../*/
(listing protected pub dirs)
You can use
<?php
$list = ftp_nlist($ftp, "-aF ../*/");
?>
Took me a while to clever that one out :-)