how to download a file from windows server using ftp? - php

Question

I am trying to download a file from windows server to a local ubuntu machine. below is the code i used.
$ftp_conn = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Could not connect to $ftp_server");
$login = ftp_login($ftp_conn, $username, $password);
$local_file = "test.php";
$server_file = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/plugins/myplugin/controllers/test.php";
$handle = fopen($local_file, 'w');
if (file_exists($server_file)) {
echo "exist";
} else {
echo "not exist";
}
if ((!$ftp_conn) || (!$login)) {
echo "FTP connection has failed!";
exit;
} else {
echo "Connected";
}
// download server file
if (ftp_fget($ftp_conn, $handle, $server_file, FTP_ASCII)) {
echo "Successfully written to $local_file.";
} else {
echo "Error downloading server file.";
}
// close connection
ftp_close($ftp_conn);
exit;
Always getting Error downloading server file. The error getting is
ftp_get("test.php"): failed to open stream:

Answer 1

See the documentation:
Specifically, the second argument:
handle: An open file pointer in which we store the data.
You are passing it a string, not a file pointer.
See the example code in the manual:
$local_file = 'localfile.txt';
// open some file to write to
$handle = fopen($local_file, 'w');