Question: I have a url, `http://www.mysite.com/images` and the `images` directory allows Directory Listings. How can I get the files in that directory with PHP?

Answer: 
I know this question is very old, but just to get me into the swing of using this forum I thought I'd add my view. I found the following happened (referring to the original answer to use regex.

My html turned out to be formatted like this:

```
<td>
<a href="bricks.php">bricks.php</a>
</td>

```

So I ended up using this:

```
$count = preg_match_all('/<a href=\"([^\"?\/]+)">[^<]*<\/a>/i', $html, $files);

```

I wanted to use the following (which tested ok in the online generator testers, but it failed to find a match in the php code):

```
$count = preg_match_all('/<td>(?:[\w\n\f])<a href="([^"]+)">[^<]*<\/a>(?:[\w\n\f])<\/td>/i', $html, $files);

```
You need FTP access (an FTP account to that URL). If you have this, then you can log into the server with FTP and use:

```
opendir()

```

and

```
readdir()

```

to accomplish what you are trying to do.

---

If you do not have access to the server, you will need to scrape the site's HTML, and it gets more complex -> so I can let somebody else tackle that one... but google search "scrape html site" or something similar, there are plenty of pre-written functions that can do similar things.

i.e.
<http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/web-scrape-with-php-tutorial>

<http://www.bradino.com/php/screen-scraping/>