Best way to capture data in array with unknow string elements returned

[davidjennings]

Hi All I am trying to find out the best way to capture the var_dump($contents) on line 29. I am think array? but I don't know how many string elements the array is returning.

This is the output via var_dump($contents);

array (size=45)
  0 => string '.' (length=1)
  1 => string '..' (length=2)
  2 => string 'logs' (length=4)
  3 => string 'index.html' (length=10)
  4 => string 'executable' (length=10)
  5 => string 'watkinshire' (length=11)
  6 => string '.bash_history' (length=13)
  7 => string 'beaumont_hire' (length=13)
  8 => string 'aircon_london' (length=13)
  9 => string 'aircon_london_test' (length=18)
  10 => string '.htpasswd' (length=9)
  11 => string 'abacustree' (length=10)
  12 => string 'abacustree_test' (length=15)
  13 => string 'watkins' (length=7)
  14 => string 'plasticsmoulder' (length=15)
  15 => string 'plasticsmoulder_test' (length=20)
  16 => string 'beaumont_test' (length=13)
  17 => string 'filestore' (length=9)
  18 => string 'admin' (length=5)
  19 => string 'sandbox' (length=7)

Any help would be appriciated

Thanks

David

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

// login with username and password 
$ftp_user_name = "name"; 
$ftp_user_pass = "password"; 
//connecting
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass); 
ftp_pasv($conn_id, true); 
// check connection or error message
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) { 
        echo "FTP connection has failed!"; 
        echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_user_name"; 
        exit; 
    } else { 
        echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $ftp_user_name"; 
    } 

// 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);

// get contents of the current directory
$contents = ftp_nlist($conn_id, ".");
var_dump($contents);


ftp_close($conn_id);  
?> 

[davidjennings]

Hi All when I try this code

 $i=1;
 while ($i <45){
 $content[$i] = $contents; 
 echo $content; 
 $i++;
}

Notice: Array to string conversion in error

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

David

[iamthwee]

Do you need to show the directory structure?

[davidjennings]

Hi Iamthwee, Thanks for your reply. Yes I do need to do this, but I am only at this time reading the the first level.

Thanks

David