Upload To External Server

[BlackList]

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to create a file on another server with fopen.

I don't know how I would get write access to an external server.

Thanks.

[MarkR]

Get your sysadmin to mount the external server's directory (by way of e.g. NFS mount, windows share etc, possibly via VPN if it's over the internet- depending on their own policy on such things) on a locally accessible directory.

Then ask them where it is

and write the files there in the normal way using fopen()

Mark

[bradgrafelman]

Another option might be using PHP's [man]FTP[/man] functions if they are available to you.

[BlackList]

Well, I looked at the FTP functions.

Maybe you can help me fix my code.

// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($row_getUser['siteHost']);

// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $row_getUser['siteUser'], $row_getUser['sitePass']);
// check connection
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {
       echo "FTP connection has failed!";
       echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_user_name";
       exit;
   }
  // Creates Page
	$pageVar = '$pageVar';
	$ourFileName = "ftp://".$row_getUser['siteUser'].":".$row_getUser['sitePass']."@".$row_getUser['siteHost'].$row_getUser['siteDir']. dirify($_POST['name']) . ".php";
	$ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'w') or die("can't open file");
	$stringData = "<?php " . $pageVar . "='" . dirify($_POST['name']) . "'; include('template.php');  ?>";
	fwrite($ourFileHandle, $stringData);
	fclose($ourFileHandle);

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

[BlackList]

Ok, So I tried to write it to my server then upload it with this script and I get a "No Database Selected" error.

When I take out the FTP code it works.

if(isset($_POST['name'])){
// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($row_getUser['siteHost']);

// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $row_getUser['siteUser'], $row_getUser['sitePass']);

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

  // Creates Page
	$pageVar = '$pageVar';
	$ourFileName = "pages/". dirify($_POST['name']) . ".php";
    $ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'w') or die("can't open file");
	$stringData = "<?php " . $pageVar . "='" . dirify($_POST['name']) . "'; include('template.php');  ?>";
	fwrite($ourFileHandle, $stringData);
	fclose($ourFileHandle);

$upload = ftp_put($conn_id, $row_getUser['siteDir'], $ourFileName, FTP_BINARY);

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

}