upload to 4 servers at once

martincrumlish

Hi,

I want to make a quick little app to save time for something I have to do in work. I frequently have to upload a latest.gif to 4 different web servers using FTP programs. This is quite annoying so I decided I am going to try to make a PHP script that will upload the file to all 4 web servers at once from one form field and 1 submit button.

Does anyone know how I would do this?

The servers are all duplicated of each other and have the same password and username as well as paths etc.

It would be very handy if I could put this together and would be one less monotonous task for me to do every day.

Thanks in advance,
Martin

PS: This doesnt need to be too advanced, it just needs to upload the image to the 4 servers and to confirm that the upload worked.

diego25

PHP has FTP functions that you can use. Search for the term "FTP" in the PHP manual.

Diego

theeper

If you are using Windows, you could use a simple batch script to do it. Something like this ...

make two files, one .bat and one .txt

The .bat file would contain something like this..

ftp -s:upload.txt ftp.myserver.com

The text file would look something like this ...

username
password
binary
prompt
put latest.gif
bye

martincrumlish

The Batch file would be an option but I need to go for the PHP script option. The reason for this is that I want this to be accessible to other users in our office.

diego25, yes, I know about the FTP options. I have used them a bit for single files but not for the problem I have ie: 1 file to 4 servers.

Thanks for your help.

Anyone else got any ideas?

Martin

bobthedog

Errr - I think diego25 was suggesting that you should just perform the file upload 4 times with the differint ftp details (just substitue different server addresses in a loop with iterates 4 times).

afaik, this is the easiest way for you to do it. Even if you were to find a utility function to perform this, it would definetly be making 4 seperate requests to the 4 servers.

martincrumlish

I was thinking that would be an option - just posted here to see if there was something better.

Now, the PHP script is going to be on a different server to the uloaded file so, how do I work out what path to use for the upload details?