Problem uploading images with FTP_put...

[ojeffery]

Hey all. New to the forum, would much appreciate it if you could help out with my query.

I'm trying to write an FTP uploader page in PHP - I've got a couple of problems.

1) I can only get it to upload files in the same local directory as the php page... and

2) It won't upload images. Works with PDF, Word files, text and html... But mostly I'd want it for images!

Any ideas? 😕

Cheers, Oli.

<?php 

$ftp_server="removedforsecurityreasons"; 
$ftp_user_name="removedforsecurityreasons"; 
$ftp_user_pass="removedforsecurityreasons"; 
$file = 'example.jpg'; 
$remote_file = 'test_h.jpg'; 

// Open FTP 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 the 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 successfully to $ftp_server, under username $ftp_user_name"; 
    } 


    // upload a file 
if (ftp_put($conn_id, $remote_file, $file, FTP_BINARY)) { 
 echo "<br>successfully uploaded $file\n, retitled it $remote_file"; 
} else { 
 echo "<br>There was a problem while uploading $file\n"; 
} 


// Close the FTP connection 
ftp_close($conn_id); 
?> 

[saraadmin]

FTP is a nasty old protocol.

It doesn't understand full file paths, only file names. When yo begin your session, you will be placed in the home directory of whatever user you logged into FTP as. If you want to upload to a differnt directory, you will have to use the ftp_chdir() function (note that your FTP server may restrict where you can go and where you can write to).

In your example, either add a second variable called something like $local_path or prepend the path to the $example variable and extract it in order to do a ftp_chdir($local_path) (or ftp_chdir(dirname($example))) before doing ftp_put().

Thats strange about images. What error message does it give? Might it be something to do with the part of the script (not shown in your example) which gets the filename to upload?