[FX.php List] [off] Writing PHP script for downloading

[Bob Patin]

To add to it, check out this page, which gets the directory and displays it, and tries to download each file in the directory.

http://www.longtermsolutions.com/ftp_dir.php

So this shows that my login does work...

BP

On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Bob Patin wrote:

> I'm trying to write a script to download from specific directories on my servers; here's basically what I'm trying
> 
> 
> // define vars
> $local_file = 'test.pdf';
> $server_file = $local_file;
> 
> $server = 'xs3.longtermsolutions.com';
> $un = 'bobtest';
> $pw = 'b0bt3st';
> 
> // set up basic connection
> $conn_id = ftp_connect($server);
> 
> // login with username and password
> $login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $un, $pw);
> 
> // turn passive mode on
> ftp_pasv($conn_id, false);
> 
> // try to download $server_file and save to $local_file
> if (ftp_get($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);
> 
> 
> 
> What am I missing here? If you go to
> 
> http://www.longtermsolutions.com/ftp_test.php
> 
> you'll see that it fails...
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Bob Patin
> Longterm Solutions LLC
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