PHP download from remote server via sftp - php

Question

This may have been asked before, I'm new to PHP and I'm trying to learn as much as I can, but this has really thrown me.
Basically what I want to know is, how would I use PHP code to get it to download everything from a remote server to a local location. It's getting it to download everything not just one file that I'm stuck on. So please can someone show/explain to me how I would do this?
What I've got so far:
<?php
$connection - ssh2_connect('example.com', 22);
ssh2_auth_password($connection, 'username', 'password');
$remote_dir="/remote_dir/";
$local_dir="/local_dir/";
$remote ="$remote_dir";
$stream = ssh2_exec($connection, $remote);
stream_set_blocking($stream,true);
$command=fread($stream,4096);
$array=explode(\n,$command);
$total_files=sizeof($array);
for($i=0;$i<$total_files;$i+++){
$file_name=trim($array[$i]);
if($file_name!=''{
$remote_file=$remote_dir.$file_name;
$local_file=$local_dir.$file_name;
if(ssh2_scp_recv($connection, $remote_file,$local_file)){
echo "File ".$file_name." was copied to $local_dir<br />";
}
}
}
fclose($stream);
?>
I think my $remote ="$remote_dir"; is wrong, and to be honest I've got $filename when I want the whole directory, this is all I have so far.

Answer 1

Here is a small code on how to read the folder and download all its files:
<?php
$host = 'localhost';
$port = 22;
$username = 'username';
$password = 'password';
$remoteDir = '/must/be/the/complete/folder/path';
$localDir = '/can/be/the/relative/or/absolute/local/path';
if (!function_exists("ssh2_connect"))
die('Function ssh2_connect not found, you cannot use ssh2 here');
if (!$connection = ssh2_connect($host, $port))
die('Unable to connect');
if (!ssh2_auth_password($connection, $username, $password))
die('Unable to authenticate.');
if (!$stream = ssh2_sftp($connection))
die('Unable to create a stream.');
if (!$dir = opendir("ssh2.sftp://{$stream}{$remoteDir}"))
die('Could not open the directory');
$files = array();
while (false !== ($file = readdir($dir)))
{
if ($file == "." || $file == "..")
continue;
$files[] = $file;
}
foreach ($files as $file)
{
echo "Copying file: $file\n";
if (!$remote = #fopen("ssh2.sftp://{$stream}/{$remoteDir}{$file}", 'r'))
{
echo "Unable to open remote file: $file\n";
continue;
}
if (!$local = #fopen($localDir . $file, 'w'))
{
echo "Unable to create local file: $file\n";
continue;
}
$read = 0;
$filesize = filesize("ssh2.sftp://{$stream}/{$remoteDir}{$file}");
while ($read < $filesize && ($buffer = fread($remote, $filesize - $read)))
{
$read += strlen($buffer);
if (fwrite($local, $buffer) === FALSE)
{
echo "Unable to write to local file: $file\n";
break;
}
}
fclose($local);
fclose($remote);
}
You can also resume this code to (it will not copy directories):
while (false !== ($file = readdir($dirHandle)))
{
if ($file == "." || $file == "..")
continue;
echo "Copying file: $file\n";
if(!ssh2_scp_recv($connection, $remoteDir . $file, $localDir . $file))
echo "Could not download: ", $remoteDir, $file, "\n";
}
If you do not use the full path on the remote folder it will not work:
opendir("ssh2.sftp://{$stream}{$remoteDir}")

Answer 2

Update: I was kindly corrected that this doesn't use sftp, but instead uses ftps. Here's a Stackoverflow link discussing using PHP to do SFTP.
The PHP docs already cover most of what you should need for this. Here's an example for fetching a list of the contents in the remote directory:
<?php
// set up basic connection
$ftp_server = "example.com";
$conn_id = ftp_ssl_connect($ftp_server);
// login with username and password
$ftp_user_name = "myuser";
$ftp_user_pass = "mypass";
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
ftp_pasv($conn_id, true);
// 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";
}
$buff = ftp_rawlist($conn_id, '.');
var_dump($buff);
ftp_close($conn_id);
?>

Answer 3

Here you will find all the examples for what you can do with SFTP using PHP.
http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/sftp/examples.html
<?php
include('Net/SFTP.php');
$sftp = new Net_SFTP('www.domain.tld');
if (!$sftp->login('username', 'password')) {
exit('Login Failed');
}
// outputs the contents of filename.remote to the screen
echo $sftp->get('filename.remote');
// copies filename.remote to filename.local from the SFTP server
$sftp->get('filename.remote', 'filename.local');
?>