moving files accross servers

[ade1982]

Hi gang,

I've got this bit of code to upload an image to a server

$uploaddir = './imagefolder/'; // remember the trailing slash!
$uploadfile = $uploaddir. $_FILES['userfile']['name'];

if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) {
        echo "file uploaded";					
} 

which works great.

however, because of the way my ISP gives me webspace, there are two seperate domains one starts http://www.xxx.co.uk/ which serves HTML pages, and is good for hosting HTML, CSS and images, and the other is http://ccgi.xxx.co.uk/cgi-bin/ which does the PHP and Perl.

the one that serves HTML pages is much faster than the one that serves scripts, and so I want to put the images on the http://www.xxx.co.uk/imagefolder/

now if I change the value of $imagefolder to the other host, it counts as external, and spits out 'cannot open stream, cannot write to HTTP', which is fair enough.

My question is, is it possible to copy the files accross, or put them on the server to start with? And how do you do it?

[ade1982]

ps ... I don't actually own xxx.co.uk, I'd rather now give out my domain 😃

[MarkR]

It's certainly possible to have it copy a file to the other server. Exactly how depends on how your sysadmin has set it up. It may be that the servers have a shared filesystem, in which case it's simply a matter of knowing where it's mapped to.

Contact your provider for this information if you don't have it already.

Another (much worse) way of doing it would be by using an FTP connection. You can do this by using fopen with an ftp:// URL containing the username and password. But this is a really bad idea because FTP is slow and crap, plus also it means you need to hard code your web space FTP login in your code.

For preference, get a hosting provider who does not do this at all. I certainly wouldn't use one.

Mark