I am trying to make a page that would be similar to opening an ftp url in firefox...
i want to make an HTML page that can lsit the contents of its root folder....
om this case the /files folder i have on my webserver anyway to do it without messing with databases or leaving the .htm file format, and keeping it an http:// document?

Thanks in advance,
-matt

Yes, although with all those requirements it's not going to be easy.

First, you need to create a .htaccess file and put this in it...

AddType application/x-http-php .htm .html .php

Then place that in the directory where this script will reside. Next you can create an ftp client using php's built in FTP functions.

Something like this should give you a basic idea...

PHP Code:

<?php
// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);

// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);

// check connection
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {
       echo "FTP connection has failed!";
       echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_user_name";
       exit;
   } else {
       $ftp_nlist = ftp_nlist($conn_id, $dir_to_list);
       foreach($ftp_nlist as $res) {
           echo $res . '<br />';
       }
   }

ftp_close($conn_id);
?>

Put that somewhere in your .htm document and with the .htaccess file it should work.

hmmm, not exactly what i was thinking of, but it should work just fine
thanks!