ftp functions clarification..

deckrdx

I'm having a discussion in another tread on the use of the ftp functions in php. Could someone clarify if the ftp functions are used for server to server or server to client?

jc94062

I'm that person, just to say, if Chad is right (sorry, but I'm hoping you arn't!) then how do those other companies get their ftp browser based client things working, (geocities, homestead, s5...) is this through perl/c++ written cgi scripts?

Anon

I haven't read your other discussion, but I suppose you mean how these sites allow both ftp and http access methods. It's easy actually, the only think you have to do is make sure that the ftp user on the server has the same home directory as where the http scripts drop their files. The php ftp functions allow scripts to get data from ftp servers, they have nothing to do with allowing ftp access to a user.

jc94062

Okay, I think it time to give up on this idea, via this method.

I have managed to get the copy working, to can upload files that way, and, if I go back to ftp I can get a list of files (ftp_nlist), but they are all in the form

/www.site.com/public_html/filename.php

^ for example ^

So while I can manually set up a link

to download files, is there a way to print, my files, in reasonable format such as

file1.php
file7.php
file3.jpg
file4.htm

and then select one to download. If I can do this, and then allow deletion of these, and rename (which ftp functions WILL do!) and upload, which I CAN do. I'll have pretty much achieved my aim of a simple page where authed users can sort out their files on a part of the page without full FTP access.

Also, the method of download files there is crude, isn't there a better method than can be used to download any files, other than having to name them .zip files for them to be downloaded (ie naming em .htm, .php, .jpg etc... just displays them)

Thanks a lot for any help