listing files in a folder using as3

Question

I want to get a list images inside a folder but in order to do that, I need to get the names all the files inside a folder first. What flash class should I look into to allow me to do this?

EDIT: how about doing this using php? what should I return/echo on my php file?

Answer 1

It's not possible to list the contents of remote directories over HTTP unless the server is specifically set up to reveal them. This is quite unusual. The normal way to approach this would be to supply a list of URLs to your Flash movie in a config file (XML or plain text) which lives in a known location. This might be generated by a server backend, or assembled by hand.

Answer 2

wouldn't it be possible to use the PHP function scandir() http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.scandir.php

and return the result to Flash?

the question doesn't actually mentions remote directories...