FTP Upload File

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Need to transfer files via FTP in some automated or scheduled manner. It is actually quite easy to do using FTP. Following is a simplistic PHP FTP example to get you started.

Replace ‘hostname’, ‘username’, and ‘password’ with real FTP credentials, then we try and connect to the FTP server.

//FTP CONNECT
 
$connect = ftp_connect('hostname');
 
$login = ftp_login($connect, 'username', 'password');

if an error occurred connecting to the FTP server, then we can stop here:

//CONNECTION ERROR
 
if ((!$connect) || (!$login)) {
 
    echo "FTP Connection Failed";
 
    exit;
 
}

Otherwise let’s proceed and upload a file via FTP. Be sure to replace ‘/path/to/file.ext’ with the full path to your file, as well as ‘file.ext’ with the filename you would like to use when you FTP up the file.

//UPLOAD THE FILE
 
$file = fopen('/path/to/file.ext', 'r');
 
$upload = ftp_fput($connect, 'file.ext', $file, FTP_ASCII);
 
fclose($file);
 
ftp_close($connect);

and finally let’s perform a simple check to see if the file was uploaded successfully.

// UPLOAD ERROR
 
if (!$upload) {
 
    echo "FTP Upload Failed";
 
} 
 
// UPLOAD SUCCESS
 
else {
 
    echo "FTP Upload Success";
 
}