How can a PHP script on Server 2 output a file list in a format that can be accessed and analyzed from Server 1?

To output a file list in a format that can be accessed and analyzed from Server 1, you can have Server 2 generate a JSON file containing the list of files and make it accessible via a URL. Server 1 can then use PHP to fetch and decode the JSON file to analyze the file list. 

// Server 2 PHP script to output file list in JSON format
$files = scandir('/path/to/directory');
$json = json_encode($files);
file_put_contents('/path/to/output/file.json', $json);

// Server 1 PHP script to fetch and analyze the file list
$json_url = 'http://server2.com/path/to/output/file.json';
$data = file_get_contents($json_url);
$file_list = json_decode($data, true);

// Analyze the file list
foreach ($file_list as $file) {
    echo $file . "\n";
}

Keywords

PHP script Server 2 file list output format data analysis

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