[Resolved] Please help [ftp_put()]

destop

hi all,
thanks for responding

I have a problem with the ftp_put() function i have rtfm and still get the following error...

Warning: ftp_put(): error opening E:\destop\But_S_Le.gif in real/admin_agents.php on line 66

my code looks like this...

ftp_put($FTP_CFG['CONNECT'], $FILENAME, $_REQUEST['AGENT']['LOGO'], FTP_BINARY );

Please help...
thks

drawmack

Warning: ftp_put(): error opening E:\destop\But_S_Le.gif in real/admin_agents.php on line 66

by looking at the error there are two problems with the string.
1) double backslashes.
2) the last slash is a forward slash.

Here is how you fix them

<?php
cleanFileName($fileName) {
    $fileName = stripslashes($fileName);
    $fileName = str_replace("/","\\\",$fileName);
    return $fileName;
} //end cleanFileName
?>

then call this function like so

<?php
$fileToPut = cleanFileName($FILENAME);
ftp_put($FTP_CFG['CONNECT'], $fileToPut, $_REQUEST['AGENT']['LOGO'], FTP_BINARY );
?>

for more reference see
http://www.php.net/scriptslashes
http://www.php.net/str_replace

if you're using this function a lot and speed becomes an issues check out
http://www.php.net/preg_replace instead of str_replace.

destop

Thanks for the tip, id id try the stripslashes() function, to get rid of the dbl \ howvere i still got the following error

ftp_put(): error opening E:\destop\But_S_Le.gif
in admin_agents.php on line 68

The file pointer is definately correct...
😕 😕 😕

drawmack

Just a wild guess here but where it says e:\destop is it supposed to say e:\desktop

destop

Thanks for the suggestion Drawmack, however as you can see by my username, i use destop a lot.

The thing is that it works fine on my w2k/apache setup, it is only when i move it to my server ... and yes i checked that ftp was enabled etc ...

perhaps it is because i am trying to send files like follows

LOCAL -> FIRST SERVER -> SECOND SERVER

the reason i need it to work this way is because my client insists on using the SECOND SERVER despite my kicking and screaming. They need to upload files regularly and i don't want to have teach them how to use a FTP client (They just won't get it, they're still not even getting email
😕 ). Therefore i need to make it as simple as possible, which means a simple form, and click go...

which gets me back to ftp_put probably it is trying to locate the file on the FIRST SERVER instead of LOCAL since the script is connecting to the SECOND SERVER.

However due to the simplistic nature of the clients.... i want to put the form in plain xhtml straight onto their pc, without having to install php/apache

Thanks for all the help so far...😃

Weedpacket

My guess is that your remote server is a Unix machine, in which case the path name E:\destop etc., which is clearly a Windows path, should be rewritten to be something that would work on the remote server.

Without knowing where that E:\destop etc., is coming from, and what it should be ... well, all I can say is that it's clearly using the wrong file path for some reason.