[RESOLVED] ftp_connect() stopped working (PHP4.4.2/FC2)

[Babbs]

Hello,

I run puppyfiles.us, and I've been using php on the site for some time.

Today, I noticed that my coding isn't working any more. Specifically, I'm getting the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: ftp_connect() in /var/www/vhosts/puppyfiles.us/httpdocs/.VERSIONS on line 25

The offending code in .VERSIONS (an included file) is:

$ftp_server = "puppyfiles.us";
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, "anonymous", "puppyfiles");
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {
   die("FTP connection has failed !");
  }

I have no clue why this happened. Any help/ideas is greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!
Babbs

[Weedpacket]

Sounds like PHP has been reinstalled without the [man]ftp[/man] functions enabled.

[herve]

Yes, you can check that with a

<?PHP

phpinfo();

?>

and check if in "Configuration" "PHP Core" in "disable_functions" line
the ftp_connect() function is referenced ?

[Babbs]

phpinfo() did provide a lot of information... Too much to be left on the server... I deleted the super-sensitive stuff and posted the results at: http://www.puppyfiles.us/test.php

The only mention of ftp that I saw was: Registered PHP Streams: php, http, ftp

How would it be possible to install php without ftp, a core function?

[herve]

May be it had been discarded for security reasons ?
(which I can understand)

From here :

http://fr2.php.net/manual/en/ref.ftp.php

We can see :

FTP Functions
...
No external libraries are needed to build this extension.
...
In order to use FTP functions with your PHP configuration, you should add the --enable-ftp option when installing PHP 4 or greater or --with-ftp when using PHP 3.

So may be it's just an omission during a recent installation of a new version of PHP ?

This kind of things are quite common, especially for a host with many mutualized clients.
They have to specify many many options at PHP compilation time.
(literally dozens and dozens options)

I don't see it on the "Configure Command" line in phpinfo() results.

[herve]

For instance, here's the "Configure Command" line of a mutualized web host I manage :

./configure' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-xml' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' '--with-curl' '--with-dom' '--with-dom-xslt' '--with-dom-exslt' '--with-swf=/usr/local/flash' '--enable-ftp' '--with-gd' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6' '--with-gettext' '--with-imap' '--with-imap-ssl' '--with-kerberos' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-mbstr-enc-trans' '--enable-mbregex' '--with-mcrypt' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-openssl' '--with-pear' '--enable-xslt' '--with-xslt-sablot' '--enable-safe-mode' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-track-vars' '--with-ttf' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-versioning' '--enable-wddx' '--with-zip' '--with-zlib'

[Babbs]

herve,

It looks like I may have missed a few things. 🙁 Here is the configure I used:

./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-mysql --quiet --prefix=/usr --with-config-file-path=/etc/php.ini --with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/bin --with-pear=/usr/share/pear

php -m lists these files:
[PHP Modules]
ctype
mysql
overload
pcre
posix
session
standard
tokenizer
xml

[Zend Modules]

Since it looks like I missed a few things, I'm going to redo the install. --I could have sworn that the ftp_connect part of the code was working after the upgrade.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I'll let you know how your configure works for me.
Babbs

[Babbs]

Everything seems to be working now. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Here is the config statement I used:

./configure --quiet --prefix=/usr --disable-short-tags --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs 
--with-bz2 --with-config-file-path=/etc/php.ini --with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/bin 
--with-curl --with-freetype-dir --with-gd --with-gettext --with-gmp --with-jpeg-dir 
--with-kerberos --with-ldap --with-pear=/usr/share/pear --with-tiff-dir --with-ttf 
--with-tsrm-pthreads --with-mod-charset --with-mysql --with-openssl --with-png-dir 
--with-xml --with-xmlrpc --with-xslt-sablot --with-zlib --enable-aggregate --enable-bcmath 
--enable-calendar --enable-debug --enable-exif --enable-fastcgi --enable-ftp 
--enable-gd-native-ttf --enable-libgcc --enable-mbstring --enable-mbstr-enc-trans 
--enable-mbregex --enable-safe-mode --enable-shared --enable-sigchild --enable-sockets 
--enable-static --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-tokenizer --enable-track-vars 
--enable-versioning

[herve]

Wow, That's what I call a "Command line" 🙂 !

Happy for you 😉