What would work, if you could indeed put a php file on the remote server, is to make it dump the tree to the web page, and then you have a known way of parsing or whatever to build the tree locally.

A Web server that can only serve out static pages is fine for a lot of folks. If you just want a homepage with a list of your favorite links and some pictures of your cat, then a bare Web server is ...

How many times have you set up a web server with Apache 2 only to find out that when you attempt to view a page with a .php extension, the page either attempts to save onto the local drive or it ...