ftp_put to upload files to a server problems - php

Question

I have an HTML form that is intended to allow file uploads to a server. I am programming an FTP client which is going well so far except that the files will not upload to the server. My form is as follows:
<form action='upload.php' id='upload'>
<input type='file' name='file' />
<input name='file_name' placeholder='File Name' />
<input type='submit' value='upload' />
</form>
And here is my php:
<?php
$ftp_connection = ftp_connect($_COOKIE['domain']);
if(#ftp_login($ftp_connection, $_COOKIE['username'], $_COOKIE['password'])) {
ftp_put($ftp_connection, $_REQUEST['file_name'], $_REQUEST['file']);
}
ftp_close($ftp_connection);
?>
Also note that all of those cookies work perfectly fine, as I use them to login to the FTP GUI.

Answer 1

Your form is missing enctype="multipart/form-data" which is required when uploading files.
Plus a POST method is also required.
Modify your <form... to read as:
<form action='upload.php' id='upload' enctype='multipart/form-data' method='post'>
<form> defaults to GET when omitted.
Also have a look at:
http://php.net/manual/en/book.ftp.php
Example from that page:
<?php
$ftp_server="";
$ftp_user_name="";
$ftp_user_pass="";
$file = "";//tobe uploaded
$remote_file = "";
// 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";
exit;
} else {
echo "There was a problem while uploading $file\n";
exit;
}
// close the connection
ftp_close($conn_id);
?>
and
http://php.net/manual/en/function.ftp-put.php
Example from that page:
<?php
ftp_chdir($conn, '/www/site/');
ftp_put($conn,'file.html', 'c:/wamp/www/site/file.html', FTP_BINARY );
?>
and
<?PHP
$destination_path = "src/bin/";
//where you want to throw the file on the webserver (relative to your login dir)
$destination_file = $destination_path."img.jpg";
//This will create a full path with the file on the end for you to use, I like splitting the variables like this in case I need to use on on their own or if I'm dynamically creating new folders.
$file = $myFile['tmp_name'];
//Converts the array into a new string containing the path name on the server where your file is.
$upload = ftp_put($conn_id, $destination_file, $file, FTP_BINARY);// upload the file
if (!$upload) {// check upload status
echo "FTP upload of $destination_file has failed!";
} else {
echo "Uploaded $file to $conn_id as $destination_file";
}
?>