Posted by MikeofPet on 11/02/07 17:48

On Nov 2, 9:45 am, "C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/)"
<colin.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 Nov, 15:28, MikeofPet <mike.g...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to implement FTP in a PHP script but am unable to make the
> > connection to the remote server. The connection step times out at the
> > fsockopen function. I am not sure if it is relevant but PHP is
> > configured with "allow_url_fopen" ON. I am able to do an FTP connect
> > using an FTP client and using the same host/username/password
> > parameters.
>
> > Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> > Thanks
>
> It's difficult to say what's happenning without a lot more info, but I
> can't help thinking you're making life a lot more difficult than it
> needs to be: allow_url_fopen option applies to the file access
> wrappers - not fsockopen - but I'd be using the file wrappers method
> in preference to implementing my own protocol stack (particularly with
> FTP) - but even then I'd prefer to implement it using the curl
> library.
>
> When you say it works an FTP client - I assume you are using it
> interactively from the command line - try executing it from within
> your script (seehttp://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php). Note most
> versions of the ftp client will happily work with input from a file
> redirected to STDIN
>
> C.

Thank you for comments - very helpful.

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