How to SFTP upload files from PHP - php

Question

I'm having trouble using PHP to SFTP upload files to a remote server. When I use cURL, I'm getting the error described here:
SFTP from PHP - undefined constant CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS and CURLPROTO_SFTP?
I also tried phpseclib as suggested in:
SFTP from within PHP
But when i try phpseclib, i get these errors:
Warning: require_once(Math/BigInteger.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/john/public_html/test/Net/SSH2.php on line 53
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'Math/BigInteger.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /home/john/public_html/test/Net/SSH2.php on line 53
I then tried using system commands in php like so, but nothing happened:
<?php
echo system('sftp user#ftp.domain.com');
echo system('password');
echo system('put file.csv');
?>
I also tried
<?php
$connection = ssh2_connect('shell.example.com', 22);
ssh2_auth_password($connection, 'username', 'password');
ssh2_scp_send($connection, '/local/filename', '/remote/filename', 0644);
?>
but my php server says ss2_connect is not defined.
I tried to do the following from terminal
scp file.csv user#ftp.remote.com
password
But the server does not allow scp command. I do not have shell access to create ssh keys.
All i can do right now is sftp from terminal and manually upload. But I really want to automate this so a PHP website can do all this.
There aren't many tutorials on how to SFTP upload from PHP. Is it because it's a bad thing to do? If so, what should I be doing? The server I want to upload to only allows sftp connections.

Answer 1

http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/documentation/intro.html#intro_usage_correct
Per that, phpseclib's root directory needs to be in your include_path. From that page:
<?php
set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . 'phpseclib');
include('Net/SFTP.php');
?>
You should really familiarize yourself with this kind of include technique - it's pretty standard for PEAR libraries and Zend ones.

Answer 2

but my php server says ss2_connect is not defined.
For this error, you should install ssh2 extension on your server's php.

Answer 3

Use the built in SSH library. Using the scp function will be easier than initiating a sftp session too.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ssh2-scp-send.php

Answer 4

To use system command you have to:
Configure password-less ssh
Run command like scp filename1 userid#hostname:filename2, check man scp. You can do the same with sftp but with some other options

Answer 5

You can use Pure-PHP implementation of SSHv2 library.
Here are some examples of how to use this library:
<?php
include 'vendor/autoload.php';
$ssh = new \phpseclib\Net\SSH2('www.domain.tld');
if (!$ssh->login('username', 'password')) {
exit('Login Failed');
}
echo $ssh->exec('pwd');
echo $ssh->exec('ls -la');
?>
And:
<?php
include 'vendor/autoload.php';
$key = new \phpseclib\Crypt\RSA();
//$key->setPassword('whatever');
$key->loadKey(file_get_contents('privatekey'));
$ssh = new \phpseclib\Net\SSH2('www.domain.tld');
if (!$ssh->login('username', $key)) {
exit('Login Failed');
}
echo $ssh->read('username#username:~$');
$ssh->write("ls -la\n");
?>