ftp_get() ??

furious5

I'm currently trying to write a simple script to download a file, at the moment I am able to connect to the FTP server however I am struggling to download the actual file.

This is the error I am getting:
Warning: ftp_get(): xml.php: No such file or directory in c:\development\Test_Dump\test.php on line 27
FTP download has failed!

<?php

$ftp_server = "server"; // FTP Server
$ftp_user_name = "user"; // Username
$ftp_user_pass = "pass"; // Password
$destination_file = "xml.php";
$source_file = "xml.php"; // File to download

// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server); 

// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass); 

// check connection
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) { 
       echo "FTP connection has failed!";
       echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_user_name"; 
       exit; 
   } else {
       echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $ftp_user_name";
   }

// upload the file
#$download = ftp_get($conn_id, $destination_file, $source_file, FTP_BINARY); 

$download = ftp_get($conn_id, $source_file, $destination_file, FTP_BINARY); 

// check upload status
if (!$download) { 
       echo "FTP download has failed!";
   } else {
       echo "Downloaded $source_file to $ftp_server as $destination_file";
   }

// close the FTP stream 
ftp_close($conn_id); 

?>

StuManUSA

I had this problem recently and my path to the file on the remote server was incorrect.

Also try creating a dummy local file that is blank. Sometimes .php has trouble writing new files locally but if you create a file first (make sure it is writable) and let php overwrite it then php likes that better.

Does this help?

Stu

furious5

Thanks StuMan

I had another look at the file, and realised that at the moment I have only logged in to the root and the file only exists in the public_html directory hence the error!

That part's resolved, I now just need to traverse the directory structure. I guess this is just a case of using $_SERVER to find out the path to the file and putting this within the script.

furious5

Had a bit more of a play with this just now.

I can get the file to download in to the directory I am executing the script from, which is fine for the moment.

The problem is that I have just put a test line of text in the text file on the server, on inspecting my local copy I don't have a matching line of text i.e the text file is blank.

Any ideas on this one???

Output I am getting from the script:
Warning: ftp_get() [function.ftp-get]: PORT command successful in d:\web dev\test.php on line 28
FTP download has failed!

StuManUSA

Some ideas...

1) try changing FTP_BINARY to FTP_ASCII

2) do away with the $download variable and just write your download part more simply like this....it's just a different approach but more importantly it's from my file that I know works. 😃

if (ftp_get($conn_id, $local_file, $server_file, FTP_ASCII)) {
echo "Successfully connected to file and was written to local machine \n";
} else {
echo "There was a PROBLEM downloading the file. \n";
}