The PHP ftp_rawlist() function returns a list of files with file information from a specified directory on the FTP server.

<?php
// connect and login to FTP server
$ftp_server = 'ftp.example.com';

$ftp_conn = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die('Could not connect to ' . $ftp_server);
$login = ftp_login($ftp_conn, $ftp_username, $ftp_userpass);

// get the file list
$filelist = ftp_rawlist($ftp_conn, '/');

// close connection
ftp_close($ftp_conn);

// output $filelist
var_dump($filelist);
?>

// gets a list of files with file information as an array

ftp_rawlist(ftp_conn, dir, recursive)