FTP Path Information

[cjhowland]

I am writing a PHP FTP client, that works fine while I FTP to the server that the script is running on. However, when I FTP to a remote site I need under some circumstances (eg setting .htaccess files) to know the absolute path on the REMOTE server to the file being updated (eg /home/sites/site72/web/directory/file.html rather than just /web/directory/file.html).

Is there any way I can find out from an FTP link what the absolute path is on the remote server?

[majik-sheff]

It depends entirely on the remote server's setup. If it's going to work all you'll need to do is a ftp_pwd(). If the server is set to resolve symlinks and it's not chrooted you should get the path you need. Unfortunately there are dozens of possible ways for it to not work and only 1 way it will.