ftp_rawlist

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

ftp_rawlist — Returns a detailed list of files in the given directory

Description

ftp_rawlist(FTP\Connection $ftp, string $directory, bool $recursive = false): array|false

ftp_rawlist() executes the FTP LIST command, and returns the result as an array.

Parameters

ftp: An FTP\Connection instance.
directory: The directory path. May include arguments for the LIST command.
recursive: If set to true, the issued command will be LIST -R.

Return Values

Returns an array where each element corresponds to one line of text. Returns false when passed directory is invalid.

The output is not parsed in any way. The system type identifier returned by ftp_systype() can be used to determine how the results should be interpreted.

Changelog

Version	Description
8.1.0	The `ftp` parameter expects an FTP\Connection instance now; previously, a resource was expected.

Examples

Example #1 ftp_rawlist() example

<?php

// set up basic connection
$ftp = ftp_connect($ftp_server);

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

// get the file list for /
$buff = ftp_rawlist($ftp, '/');

// close the connection
ftp_close($ftp);

// output the buffer
var_dump($buff);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

array(3) {
  [0]=>
  string(65) "drwxr-x---   3 vincent  vincent      4096 Jul 12 12:16 public_ftp"
  [1]=>
  string(66) "drwxr-x---  15 vincent  vincent      4096 Nov  3 21:31 public_html"
  [2]=>
  string(73) "lrwxrwxrwx   1 vincent  vincent        11 Jul 12 12:16 www -> public_html"
}

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fredvanetten at tinqle dot com ¶

11 years ago

Here's a simple function that'll parse the data returned by ftp_rawlist() into an associative array. I wrote it because some of the functions listed below are way to long, complex or won't work with file names that contain spaces.


<?php

function listDetailed($resource, $directory = '.') {

        if (is_array($children = @ftp_rawlist($resource, $directory))) {

$items = array();


            foreach ($children as $child) {

$chunks = preg_split("/\s+/", $child);

                list($item['rights'], $item['number'], $item['user'], $item['group'], $item['size'], $item['month'], $item['day'], $item['time']) = $chunks;

$item['type'] = $chunks[0]{0} === 'd' ? 'directory' : 'file';

array_splice($chunks, 0, 8);

$items[implode(" ", $chunks)] = $item;

            }


            return $items;

        }


// Throw exception or return false < up to you

}

?>

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weltvolk ¶

16 years ago

With this handy function based on functions presented here you get the file list in alphabetical order with all directories on top:

<?php
function rawlist_dump() {
  global $ftp_connect;
$ftp_rawlist = ftp_rawlist($ftp_connect, ".");
  foreach ($ftp_rawlist as $v) {
$info = array();
$vinfo = preg_split("/[\s]+/", $v, 9);
    if ($vinfo[0] !== "total") {
$info['chmod'] = $vinfo[0];
$info['num'] = $vinfo[1];
$info['owner'] = $vinfo[2];
$info['group'] = $vinfo[3];
$info['size'] = $vinfo[4];
$info['month'] = $vinfo[5];
$info['day'] = $vinfo[6];
$info['time'] = $vinfo[7];
$info['name'] = $vinfo[8];
$rawlist[$info['name']] = $info;
    }
  }
$dir = array();
$file = array();
  foreach ($rawlist as $k => $v) {
    if ($v['chmod']{0} == "d") {
$dir[$k] = $v;
    } elseif ($v['chmod']{0} == "-") {
$file[$k] = $v;
    }
  }
  foreach ($dir as $dirname => $dirinfo) {
      echo "[ $dirname ] " . $dirinfo['chmod'] . " | " . $dirinfo['owner'] . " | " . $dirinfo['group'] . " | " . $dirinfo['month'] . " " . $dirinfo['day'] . " " . $dirinfo['time'] . "<br>";
  }
  foreach ($file as $filename => $fileinfo) {
      echo "$filename " . $fileinfo['chmod'] . " | " . $fileinfo['owner'] . " | " . $fileinfo['group'] . " | " . $fileinfo['size'] . " Byte | " . $fileinfo['month'] . " " . $fileinfo['day'] . " " . $fileinfo['time'] . "<br>";
  }
}
rawlist_dump();
?>

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mediaboat at gmail dot com ¶

10 years ago

All  parse_rawlist Functions here have one Problem.

when a file starts with a space character like " robots.txt ", it will be ignored.

Rename, delete will fail...

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shaun at shaunfreeman dot co dot uk ¶

14 years ago

Get a listing of all files including hidden files except '.' or '..' use:


<?php

ftp_chdir($connid, $dir);

ftp_rawlist($connid, "-A");

?>



This had me dancing in circles for some time!

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Johnny Doe ¶

13 years ago

In case anybody wants to get a detailed listing using the MLSD command over a passive connection, the following function might be helpful as a starting point for your own implementation:


<?php

function ftp_mlsd($ftp, $directory) {

$ok = @ftp_chdir($ftp, $directory);

    if (!$ok) {

        return false;

    }

$ret = ftp_raw($ftp, 'PASV');

    if (preg_match(

'/^227.*\(([0-9]+,[0-9]+,[0-9]+,[0-9]+),([0-9]+),([0-9]+)\)$/',

$ret[0], $matches)) {

$controlIP = str_replace(',', '.', $matches[1]);

$controlPort = intval($matches[2])*256+intval($matches[3]);

$socket = fsockopen($controlIP, $controlPort);

ftp_raw($ftp, 'MLSD');

$s = '';

        while (!feof($socket)) {

$s .= fread($socket, 4096);

        }

fclose($socket);

$files = array();

        foreach (explode("\n", $s) as $line) {

            if (!$line) {

                continue;

            }

$file = array();

            foreach (explode(';', $line) as $property) {

                list($key, $value) = explode('=', $property);

                if ($value) {

$file[$key] = $value;

                } else {

$filename = trim($key);

                }

            }

$files[$filename] = $file;

        }

        return $files;

    }

    return false;

}

?>



Please note that this function ignores the setting of ftp_pasv(). Making the function to work universally for both active and passive connections is left as an exercise to the reader ;-)

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Roline88 at hotmail dot com ¶

6 years ago

Note that this function also will return false if the content of the provided directory is empty.

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paul maybe at squirrel mail org ¶

16 years ago

Regarding converting permissions from symbolic notation to octal, note that Hazem dot Khaled at gmail dot com's chmodnum function produces INCORRECT results.  The resutls are base-10 numbers that only LOOK like they are octal numbers.  The function also ignores setuid, setgid and sticky bits, and will produce incorrect numbers if such a file is encountered.  Instead, this brute-force code works.  Maybe there is something more slick, but this isn't too CPU-intensive (note that it assumes you've error-checked that you indeed have a 10-character string!):

      $permissions = 'drwxr-xr-x';  // or whatever
      $mode = 0;

      if ($permissions[1] == 'r') $mode += 0400;
      if ($permissions[2] == 'w') $mode += 0200;
      if ($permissions[3] == 'x') $mode += 0100;
      else if ($permissions[3] == 's') $mode += 04100;
      else if ($permissions[3] == 'S') $mode += 04000;

      if ($permissions[4] == 'r') $mode += 040;
      if ($permissions[5] == 'w') $mode += 020;
      if ($permissions[6] == 'x') $mode += 010;
      else if ($permissions[6] == 's') $mode += 02010;
      else if ($permissions[6] == 'S') $mode += 02000;

      if ($permissions[7] == 'r') $mode += 04;
      if ($permissions[8] == 'w') $mode += 02;
      if ($permissions[9] == 'x') $mode += 01;
      else if ($permissions[9] == 't') $mode += 01001;
      else if ($permissions[9] == 'T') $mode += 01000;

      printf('Mode is %d decimal and %o octal', $mode, $mode);

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admin at mikeholloway dot co dot uk ¶

18 years ago

I was having problems picking up the directories on a mac using cjacobsen at pge dot cl's (11-Jan-05) solution. Slight ammendment to the regexp works for me:

ereg("([-dl][rwxstST-]+).* ?([0-9 ]* )?([a-zA-Z0-9]+).* ([a-zA-Z0-9]+).* ([0-9]*) ([a-zA-Z]+[0-9: ]*[0-9])[ ]+(([0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2})|[0-9]{4}) (.+)", $file, $regs)

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John ¶

14 years ago

There are a couple of php-related reasons given here for ftp_rawlist returning an empty result. However be aware that ZoneAlarm (and possibly other) firewalls can block responses without giving any visible clue so be sure to check that first.

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nospam at advancedonsite dot com ¶

14 years ago

ftp_rawlist kept returning empty file listing, it would work on some machines but not others, it turned out to be ftp_pasv command was needed.
Very frustrating

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marc dot peterlongo at francetelecom dot com ¶

19 years ago

When you try:

$path = "directory pathname with spaces";
$list = ftp_rawlist($conn_id,$path);

It doesn't work

but when you try:

$path = "directory pathname with spaces";
ftp_chdir($conn_id,$path);
$list = ftp_rawlist($conn_id,".");

It works

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ahmadmarafa at gmail dot com ¶

15 years ago

this is function to check for dirs 


<?php

function ftp_isdir($connect_id,$dir)

{

    if(ftp_chdir($connect_id,$dir))

    {

ftp_cdup($connect_id);

        return true;


    }

    else

    {

        return false;

    }

}

?>

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tmp at gmx dot de ¶

15 years ago

To format the _recrusive_ result of this function I use this:

<?php
$conn_id = ftp_connect(FTP_SERVER);

$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, FTP_USR, FTP_PASS);

$rawfiles = ftp_rawlist($conn_id, '/', true);

ftp_close($conn_id);

// here the magic begins!
$structure = array();
$arraypointer = &$structure;
foreach ($rawfiles as $rawfile) {
    if ($rawfile[0] == '/') {
$paths = array_slice(explode('/', str_replace(':', '', $rawfile)), 1);
$arraypointer = &$structure;
        foreach ($paths as $path) {
            foreach ($arraypointer as $i => $file) {
                if ($file['text'] == $path) {
$arraypointer = &$arraypointer[ $i ]['children'];
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
    } elseif(!empty($rawfile)) {
$info = preg_split("/[\s]+/", $rawfile, 9);        
$arraypointer[] = array(
'text'   => $info[8],
'isDir'  => $info[0]{0} == 'd',
'size'   => byteconvert($info[4]),
'chmod'  => chmodnum($info[0]),
'date'   => strtotime($info[6] . ' ' . $info[5] . ' ' . $info[7]),
'raw'    => $info
// the 'children' attribut is automatically added if the folder contains at least one file
);
    }
}

// in $structure is all the data
print_r($structure);

// little helper functions
function byteconvert($bytes) {
$symbol = array('B', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB', 'EB', 'ZB', 'YB');
$exp = floor( log($bytes) / log(1024) );
    return sprintf( '%.2f ' . $symbol[ $exp ], ($bytes / pow(1024, floor($exp))) );
}

function chmodnum($chmod) {
$trans = array('-' => '0', 'r' => '4', 'w' => '2', 'x' => '1');
$chmod = substr(strtr($chmod, $trans), 1);
$array = str_split($chmod, 3);
    return array_sum(str_split($array[0])) . array_sum(str_split($array[1])) . array_sum(str_split($array[2]));
}

?>

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Anonymous ¶

19 years ago

Note that there is no standard for the format, therefore don't be suprised when parsing routines for this work perfectly on some servers, and fail horribly on some.

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francois frao_o ¶

15 years ago

Why not using POSIX regex to do the job here ? A preg_replace returns the information in an associative array with the following keys:

<rights>
<number>
<owner>
<group>
<file_size>
<mod_time>
<file>
<type> * that's a bonus: it will tell you if the item is either a file or a directory

Code is shown below:

$list=@ftp_rawlist($con,$directory) ;

$items=array() ;

foreach($list as $_)
preg_replace(

'`^(.{10}+)(\s*)(\d{1})(\s*)(\d*|\w*)'.
'(\s*)(\d*|\w*)(\s*)(\d*)\s'.
'([a-zA-Z]{3}+)(\s*)([0-9]{1,2}+)'.
'(\s*)([0-9]{2}+):([0-9]{2}+)(\s*)(.*)$`Ue',

'$items[]=array(
"rights"=>"$1", 
"number"=>"$3", 
"owner"=>"$5", "group"=>"$7",
"file_size"=>"$9",
"mod_time"=>"$10 $12 $14:$15",
"file"=>"$17",
"type"=>print_r((preg_match("/^d/","$1"))?"dir":"file",1));',

$_) ; # :p

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www.bosssftp.com ¶

15 years ago

Some FTP servers only allow you to get list of files under current working directory. So if you always get result as empty array (array(0){ }), try changing the cwd befor get the list:


<?php

function ftprawlist($connid, $dir) {

ftp_chdir($connid, $dir);

  return ftp_rawlist($connid, "-a");

}

?>

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ari at bs-inc dot com ¶

17 years ago

This is a little cleaner:

function parse_rawlist( $array )
{
    foreach($array as $curraw)
    {
        $struc = array();
        $current = preg_split("/[\s]+/",$curraw,9);

        $struc['perms']  = $current[0];
        $struc['number'] = $current[1];
        $struc['owner']  = $current[2];
        $struc['group']  = $current[3];
        $struc['size']  = $current[4];
        $struc['month']  = $current[5];
        $struc['day']    = $current[6];
        $struc['time']  = $current[7];
        $struc['year']  = $current[8];
        $struc['raw']  = $curraw;
        $structure[$struc['name']] = $struc;
    }
   return $structure;

}

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nickman at freemail dot hu ¶

10 years ago

The solution of fredvanetten at tinqle dot com is nice but needs further evaluation as because of the preg_split and static listing of the variables will produce different values: comparing a file of today or an older, from a previous year:

Array
(
    [time] => 2012
    [day] => 11
    [month] => Sep
    [size] => 37262
    [group] => group
    [user] => owner
    [number] => 1
    [rights] => -rw-rw-rw-
)

Array
(
    [time] => 14:01
    [day] => 23
    [month] => Apr
    [size] => 37262
    [group] => group
    [user] => owner
    [number] => 1
    [rights] => -rw-rw-rw-
)

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nate at 8networks dot com ¶

19 years ago

this snip fixes the date problem with the listing and sorts out the variables:

$filedata['access_permissions']
$filedata['link_count']
$filedata['uid']
$filedata['gid']
$filedata['size']
$filedata['mod_date_month']
$filedata['mod_date_day']
$filedata['mod_time']
$filedata['name']

list($filedata['access_permissions'], $filedata['link_count'], $filedata['uid'], $filedata['gid'], $filedata['size'], $filedata['mod_date_month'], $filedata['mod_date_day'], $filedata['mod_time'], $filedata['name']) = preg_split("/[\s,]+/", $value);

$filedata['type'] = $filedata['access_permissions']{0};

$filedata['access_permissions'] = substr($filedata['access_permissions'],1);

// now check the date to see if the last modifcation was this year or last.

if ( strrpos($filedata['mod_time'], ':') != 2 ) { $filedata['mod_date'] = $filedata['mod_date_month'] ." " . $filedata['mod_date_day'] . " " . $filedata['mod_time']; $filedata['mod_time'] = "00:00"; } else { $filedata['mod_date'] = $filedata['mod_date_month'] ." " . $filedata['mod_date_day'] . " " . date("Y"); }

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cjacobsen at pge dot cl ¶

19 years ago

Excelent expresion, but don't match SUID, SGUI and Sticky flags when 'x' is disabled. Fix it with [rwxstST-].

<?php

function itemize_dir($contents) {
   foreach ($contents as $file) {
       if(ereg("([-dl][rwxstST-]+).* ([0-9]*) ([a-zA-Z0-9]+).* ([a-zA-Z0-9]+).* ([0-9]*) ([a-zA-Z]+[0-9: ]*[0-9])[ ]+(([0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2})|[0-9]{4}) (.+)", $file, $regs)) {
$type = (int) strpos("-dl", $regs[1]{0});
$tmp_array['line'] = $regs[0];
$tmp_array['type'] = $type;
$tmp_array['rights'] = $regs[1];
$tmp_array['number'] = $regs[2];
$tmp_array['user'] = $regs[3];
$tmp_array['group'] = $regs[4];
$tmp_array['size'] = $regs[5];
$tmp_array['date'] = date("m-d",strtotime($regs[6]));
$tmp_array['time'] = $regs[7];
$tmp_array['name'] = $regs[9];
       }
$dir_list[] = $tmp_array;
   }
   return $dir_list;
}
$buff = ftp_rawlist($cid, "/");
$items = itemize_dir($buff);

?>

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greg at upsdn dot net ¶

19 years ago

list all (including hidden files and dirs):
<?php
  $contents = ftp_rawlist($conn_id, "-al ".$dir_name);
?>

just as ftp command:
LIST al 

"-aF " is equal to '-al', please refer to "ls --help"

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greg at upsdn dot net ¶

19 years ago

The previous regular expression(by Jonathan Almarez,ergye at yahoo dot com and guru at virusas dot lt) is very good.But i found it does not  take into account for directories(number>9)

Change [0-9] to [0-9]*

The code below not only parses:
drwxrwxr-x     9 msik     ia           4096 Nov  5 14:19 Group3

It also parses:
drwxrwxr-x   19 msik     ia           4096 Nov  5 14:19 Group3
3 
drwxrwxr-x   119 msik     ia           4096 Nov  5 14:19 Group3
3 

0 = file
1 = directory
2 = simlink
<?php

function itemize_dir($contents) {
   foreach ($contents as $file) {
       if(ereg("([-dl][rwxst-]+).* ([0-9]*) ([a-zA-Z0-9]+).* ([a-zA-Z0-9]+).* ([0-9]*) ([a-zA-Z]+[0-9: ]*[0-9])[ ]+(([0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2})|[0-9]{4}) (.+)", $file, $regs)) {
$type = (int) strpos("-dl", $regs[1]{0});
$tmp_array['line'] = $regs[0];
$tmp_array['type'] = $type;
$tmp_array['rights'] = $regs[1];
$tmp_array['number'] = $regs[2];
$tmp_array['user'] = $regs[3];
$tmp_array['group'] = $regs[4];
$tmp_array['size'] = $regs[5];
$tmp_array['date'] = date("m-d",strtotime($regs[6]));
$tmp_array['time'] = $regs[7];
$tmp_array['name'] = $regs[9];
       }
$dir_list[] = $tmp_array;
   }
   return $dir_list;
}
$buff = ftp_rawlist($cid, "/");
$items = itemize_dir($buff);

?>

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Anonymous ¶

20 years ago

If you write
<?php
rawlist ($ftp, "-a");
?>
The command will be "LIST -a", so the retuned list will also contain hidden files like ".htaccess".

In this case all files and folders of the current directory are contained.
To list another folder, you must change to it with "ftp_chdir".

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eros at speedy dot com dot ar ¶

19 years ago

NO, NO, NO.

The above examples are all wrong, the spaces given in array are not there "just because", its just a tabbed structure. In php we don't have structures like in c/cpp, but the following function will do the job.

<?php

function parse_rawlist( $array ) {

    for ( $i = 1; $i < count($array); $i++ ) {

$current = $array[$i];

$structure[$i]['perms']  = substr($current, 0, 10);
$structure[$i]['number'] = trim(substr($current, 11, 3));
$structure[$i]['owner']  = trim(substr($current, 15, 8));
$structure[$i]['group']  = trim(substr($current, 24, 8));
$structure[$i]['size']   = trim(substr($current, 33, 8));
$structure[$i]['month']  = trim(substr($current, 42, 3));
$structure[$i]['day']    = trim(substr($current, 46, 2));
$structure[$i]['time']   = substr($current, 49, 5);
$structure[$i]['name']   = substr($current, 55, strlen($current) - 55);

    }

    return $structure;

}

?>

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