Read contents of every file in FTP directory using one connection - php

Question

My goal is to connect to an FTP account, read the files in a particular folder, grab the content and list out to my screen.
This is what I have:
// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect('HOST_ADDRESS');
// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, 'USERNAME', 'PASSWORD');
if (!$login_result)
{
exit();
}
// get contents of the current directory
$contents = ftp_nlist($conn_id, "DirectoryName");
$files = [];
foreach ($contents AS $content)
{
$ignoreArray = ['.','..'];
if ( ! in_array( $content , $ignoreArray) )
{
$files[] = $content;
}
}
The above works well to get the file names I need to grab the content from. Next I want to recurse through the filename array and store the content into a variable for further processing.
I am not sure how to do this, I would imagine it would need to be something like this though:
foreach ($files AS $file )
{
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($conn_id, filesize($file));
$content[$file] = $contents;
}
The above idea comes from here:
PHP: How do I read a .txt file from FTP server into a variable?
Although I don't like the idea of having to connect each time to grab the file contents, would prefer to do it on the initial instance.

Answer 1

To avoid having to connect/login for every file, use the ftp_get and reuse your connection ID ($conn_id):
foreach ($files as $file)
{
// Full path to a remote file
$remote_path = "DirectoryName/$file";
// Path to a temporary local copy of the remote file
$temp_path = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), "ftp");
// Temporarily download the file
ftp_get($conn_id, $temp_path, $remote_path, FTP_BINARY);
// Read the contents of temporary copy
$contents = file_get_contents($temp_path);
$content[$file] = $contents;
// Discard the temporary copy
unlink($temp_path);
}
(You should add some error checking.)