This is a very basic question since I do not properly understand the underlying concepts of the different protocols. Please be indulgent.
I can upload files to my site with FTP using Filezilla. Now I'm developing a user interface for sending data to update a database and files (photos) to be saved in a directory. I send this data with POST (see here). I get the file, but cannot save it to the destination directory performing
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['PhotoToUpload']['tmp_name'],"../../Photos/".$file_name);
I think is because of permissions (currently 755). Since I can currently upload with Filezilla FTP (so I understand I have the permissions to do that),
my question is:
Is bad practice (or conceptually wrong) to take the temp file created after the POST and load it with a FTP code like the following (taken from here)?
<?php
$ftp_server = "myftp.co.uk";
$ftp_user_name = "myusername";
$ftp_user_pass = "mypass";
$destination_file = "../../Photos/";
$source_file = $_FILES['PhotoToUpload']['tmp_name'];
// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
ftp_pasv($conn_id, true);
// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
// check connection
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {
echo "FTP connection has failed!";
echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_user_name";
exit;
} else {
echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $ftp_user_name";
}
// upload the file
$upload = ftp_put($conn_id, $destination_file, $source_file, FTP_BINARY);
// check upload status
if (!$upload) {
echo "FTP upload has failed!";
} else {
echo "Uploaded $source_file to $ftp_server as $destination_file";
}
// close the FTP stream
ftp_close($conn_id);
?>
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I have searched a lot for the answer and found some results but none of one is working for me. I want to transfer zip file from one server to another server using ftp functions. File went transferred but without data. Here is my code as follows:
<?php
$file = 'LICENSE.zip';
$fp = 'LICENSE.zip';
$ftp_server = "ftpserver name";
$ftp_user_name = "ftp username";
$ftp_user_pass = "ftp password";
// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
// login with username and password
// upload a file
ftp_chdir($conn_id,'/dev');
if (ftp_put($conn_id, $file, $fp, FTP_BINARY)) {
echo "successfully uploaded $file\n";
} else {
echo "There was a problem while uploading $file\n";
}
// close the connection
ftp_close($conn_id);
fclose($fp);
?>
Even I am unable to transfer a simple .php or .txt file with their data. In this case only files without data is moving.
Is it possible for a cron job to copy a file from a remote server and move it to our server and over-right the file currently sitting there?
I have looked for an answer on here and not found a suitable solution as most are moving a file to and not from a remote server
there will be two sets of ftp details to include.
This is for a product feed and i really cant get my head around it.
Am i on the right line of thinking with this that i have adapted.
<?php
$file = 'remotefile.txt';
$remote_file = 'ourfile.txt';
$ftp_server ='example.com';
$ftp_user_name = 'username';
$ftp_user_pass = 'password';
// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
// upload a file
if (ftp_put($conn_id, $remote_file, $file, FTP_ASCII)) {
echo "successfully uploaded $file\n";
} else {
echo "There was a problem while uploading $file\n";
}
// close the connection
ftp_close($conn_id);
?>
Yes, it's possible.
Cronjobs are made to execute scripts periodically (every hours, every day, etc...).
So everything you can do with a script, you can do with cronjobs.
after playing around with the code i noticed i was using ftp_put and not ftp_get
here is the working code
<?php
$file = 'remotefile.txt';
$remote_file = 'ourfile.txt';
$ftp_server ='example.com';
$ftp_user_name = 'username';
$ftp_user_pass = 'password';
// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
// upload a file
if (ftp_get($conn_id, $remote_file, $file, FTP_ASCII)) {
echo "successfully uploaded $file\n";
} else {
echo "There was a problem while uploading $file\n";
}
// close the connection
ftp_close($conn_id);
?>
I'm trying to open a folder from a distant server. I wrote :
if ($folderHandle = opendir($folder))
where $folder = "ftp://xxx:xxx#xxx.net:21"
I get the weird error Warning: opendir(ftp://...:21): failed to open dir: operation failed in ... on line 38
Any ideas as to where I should go from here ? Is it a problem with the FTP credentials ?
You could use PHP's FTP Capabilities to remotely connect to the server and get a directory listing:
// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect('otherserver.example.com');
// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, 'username', 'password');
// check connection
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {
echo "FTP connection has failed!";
exit;
}
// upload the file
$upload = ftp_put($conn_id, $destination_file, $source_file, FTP_BINARY);
// check upload status
if (!$upload) {
echo "FTP upload has failed!";
} else {
echo "Uploaded $source_file to $ftp_server as $destination_file";
}
// Retrieve directory listing
$files = ftp_nlist($conn_id, '/remote_dir');
// close the FTP stream
ftp_close($conn_id);
I was working on with a FTP upload from my php page.
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', true);
flush();
$ftp_server = "myserver";
$ftp_user_name="myuser";
$ftp_user_pass="mypass";
$remote_file="myfile.txt";
$file="myfile.txt";
// set up a connection or die
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Couldn't connect to $ftp_server");
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
if (ftp_put($conn_id, $remote_file, $file, FTP_ASCII)) {
echo "successfully uploaded $file\n";
} else {
echo "There was a problem while uploading $file\n";
}
// close the connection
ftp_close($conn_id);
?>
It gives me a Warning in browser like
Warning: ftp_put(): Access is denied. in /var/www/html/ftpcheck.php on line 17. There was a problem while uploading myfile.txt.
I checked the access permissions on the file. But its accessible. Can any one tell me why this happens?
Most probably this is a permission issue. When you are uploading a file via FTP, you also need to check the directory's permission. When you're saying it's accessible, it doesn't mean it's writable.
You don't check the result of the login operation:
if (ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass)) {
echo "Connected as $ftp_user_name#$ftp_server\n";
} else {
echo "Couldn't connect as $ftp_user_name\n";
}
You should also try a manual FTP operation from the PHP host to the FTP host to ensure that you can log-on with these credentials and put a file. This will help you establish whether it's your code at fault or the FTP credentials.
<?php
class Ftp {
function upload()
{
$ftp_server="50.56.113.39";
$ftp_user_name="******";
$ftp_user_pass="***";
$file = "form.pdf";//tobe uploaded
$remote_file = "uploads1/test.pdf";
// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
// upload a file
if (ftp_put($conn_id, $remote_file, $file, FTP_BINARY))
{
echo "successfully uploaded $file\n";
//exit;
}
else
{
echo "There was a problem while uploading $file\n";
//exit;
}
// close the connection
ftp_close($conn_id);
}
}
?>
What I'm trying to do is automaticly upload a zip-file through FTP using PHP, and then extract the zip-file as well. However first things first: I'm having trouble with uploading the zip-file using PHP's ftp_put function. This is my script:
// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $user, $pass); //<!--same as cPanel account user and pass?
// check connection
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {
echo "FTP connection has failed!";
echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $user";
exit;
} else {
echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $user";
}
// server & file info
$file = 'phpBB3.zip';
$ftp_root = '/public_html/';
$site_root = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/scripts/';
// >>>HERE<<<
// upload the file
// >>>HERE<<<
$upload = ftp_put($conn_id, $ftp_root .$file, $site_root . $file, FTP_BINARY);
// check upload status
if (!$upload) {
echo "FTP upload has failed!";
} else {
echo "Uploaded $file to $ftp_server as $file";
}
// unzip the uploaded file (from FTP?)
$unzip = shell_exec("unzip {$file}"); //<!-- how to do this through FTP uploaded files?
// close the FTP stream
ftp_close($conn_id);
What's happening here is that it (SOMETIMES) uploads A PART of the file ( always the same amount; like 900 kB ) and sometimes doesn't upload anything at all. It's as if the uploading process is interrupted by the rest of the script being executed while the uploading wasn't finished yet. Though I'm not sure if that's the cause of the problem.
Though, it always gives me this error:
Warning: ftp_put() [function.ftp-put]:
Connecting to port 38694 in
/home/quicksit/public_html/createacct.php
on line 93
Where the output port is always different and always larger than 20.000 ( like 30.000-50.000 ).
Could anyone help me out on this?
Thanks in advanced,
Skyfe.
There is a timeout and upload limit in the configuration file for PHP... you may want to check the setting there.