Posted by Ian Davies on 10/13/50 11:30

Hello
I am trying to use php to automate the copying of a file from my remotely
hosted directory to my computer. I have put together the following but it
will only do the copying from one directory to another on the remote server.
Reading the postings on these functions they suggest that it can be done but
it appears to be the case if your are hosting your site on the same machine
you want to copy the files to. Does anyone know if there are functions in
php to do the transfer from remote server to my machine or if the code below
will acheive this with modification?


Ian



<?php
$ftp_server = "xxxxxxxx";
$ftp_user = "xxxxxxx";
$ftp_pass = "xxxxxx";
$local_file = 'myfile.txt';
$server_file = 'myfile.txt';

// set up a connection or die
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Couldn't connect to
$ftp_server");

$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user, $ftp_pass);

// check connection
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {
die("FTP connection has failed !");
}

// try to change the directory to myfilesdirectory
if (ftp_chdir($conn_id, "myfilesdirectory")) {
echo "Current directory is now: " . ftp_pwd($conn_id) . "\n";
} else {
echo "Couldn't change directory\n";
}

if (ftp_get($conn_id, $local_file, $server_file, FTP_BINARY)) {
echo "Successfully written to $local_file\n";
} else {
echo "There was a problem\n";
}

// close the connection
ftp_close($conn_id);

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