ftp download ???

heepofajeep

Hi, I am trying to write a program that will download pictures from a specific site (not one that I own or anything), and puts them into my server directory.

The problem I am having is that "ftp_*(" seems to either put files from a local directory to the server, or vice versa, and I need to move files from a remote website to the server.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

tomwerner

seems to either put files from a local directory to the server, or vice versa,

Vice versa is what you want :-)

If I understand correctly, you want to download files from a remote ftp server to your own server? If that is so then you just need to use this function:

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.ftp-get.php

heepofajeep

Maybe I am just not understanding correctly, but I don't think that will work for what I want to do... I am trying to download pictures from a wiki site to my server. So I have no way of connecting to the server that I am getting the pictures from...

Unless ftp_get uses the connection info for MY server, but that is not the way that I read it...

tomwerner

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php can download files from remote sites, however, you will need to know the path to the image (not just the html page)

heepofajeep

Ahhh, Cool, I will give that a try. I am familiar with that function, but for some reason I did not think it would work on a image file (even though the example from php.net specifically uses a .gif!)

🙂

heepofajeep

FWIW, I used the following script from php.net for fopen (for future searches):

$rh = fopen($source_file, 'r');
$wh = fopen($target_file, 'w+');
if ($rh===false || $wh===false) {
return true;
} // error reading or opening file

   while (!feof($rh)) {
       if (fwrite($wh, fread($rh, 1024)) === FALSE) {
               // 'Download error: Cannot write to file ('.$file_target.')';
               return true;
           }
   }
   fclose($rh);
   fclose($wh);
   // No error
   return false;