Upload images with FTP to server

mark_kccs

At present I have been using an FTP client (filezilla) to get images into my website but would like to have a script that does the same. I have accomplished the connection with ftp and transferred an image with a script on my local machine but when I add the script to my isp and call it from there it looks for the files locally and complains.

Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how to get the sever to transfer the images from my machine to the server with FTP? I have searched the forum but cannot see what I’m looking for. I need to upload 300 – 400 images at a time.

Many thanks in advance

laserlight

You may need to [man]chmod/man the file.

mark_kccs

hi laserlight

Sorry for the ignorance but how will that help?
I think my problem is letting the server know where to get the images from, but not sure about that.

Thanks

laserlight

If the file is not readable, then it cannot be accessed from the Web.

mark_kccs

Sorry but very confused.
I have no problem seeing the images, just moving them from my local pc to isp's server. I can do this with filezilla but need to write a script to do the same. I have found this below which kind of works for 1 file but I would like to upload multiple files.

Thanks

<?php 
  if(isset($_POST['SubmitFile'])){ 
     $myFile = $_FILES['txt_file']; // This will make an array out of the file information that was stored. 
     $file = $myFile['tmp_name'];  //Converts the array into a new string containing the path name on the server where your file is. 

 $myFileName = basename($_POST['txt_fileName']); //Retrieve filename out of file path 

 $destination_file = $myFileName;  //where you want to throw the file on the webserver (relative to your login dir) 
 $ftp_server = "xx";
 $ftp_user_name = "xx";
 $ftp_user_pass = "xx";
 $conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);        // set up basic connection 
 $login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass) or die("<h2>You do not have access to this ftp server!</h2>");  // login with username and password, or give invalid user message 
 if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {  // check connection 
         // wont ever hit this, b/c of the die call on ftp_login 
         echo "FTP connection has failed! <br />"; 
         echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_user_name"; 
         exit; 
     } else { 
     //    echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $ftp_user_name <br />"; 
 } 

 $upload = ftp_put($conn_id, $destination_file, $file, FTP_BINARY);  // upload the file 
 if (!$upload) {  // check upload status 
     echo "<h2>FTP upload of $myFileName has failed!</h2> <br />"; 
 } else { 
     echo "Uploading $myFileName Complete!<br /><br />"; 
 } 

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

?>

<html> 
  <head> 

  </head> 
  <body> 
       <form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="POST"> 

       <p>Please choose a file: 
         <input name="txt_file" type="file" id="txt_file" tabindex="1" size="35" onChange="txt_fileName.value=txt_file.value" /> 
         <input name="txt_fileName" type="hidden" id="txt_fileName" tabindex="99" size="1" /> 

         <input type="submit" name="SubmitFile" value="Upload File" accesskey="ENTER" tabindex="2" /> 
 </p>
   </form> 
  </body> 
</html>

laserlight

Use FileZilla to check if the file is uploaded to the correct location. If so, right click on the filename and view File Attributes. This is what chmod will affect. Typically files are chmod to 644 and directories to 755.

mark_kccs

I checked the files and as you say they are 644 and 755. I have used a script to chmod them which works.

I have changed the script I posted and it works for 1 file but I would like to get this to upload 300 to 400 files at a time. What I am trying to achieve is to browse to a file on the local pc and get the contents which will loop through and upload to the server. Is this a possibilty?

Thanks

laserlight

Now that you have made it work with one file, you can use the [man]dir[/man]ectory handling functions (or [man]glob/man ) to loop over a directory and upload the files in turn.

mark_kccs

Thanks for your patience and help so far.

I have the dir contents into an array but at a total loss as to how to get the images onto the server as the script i use gets the image from my windows/temp dir where php puts it. I'm not sure but I think this is the achieved from the $_FILES array info which happens on the form submission?

<?php 
if(isset($_POST['SubmitFile'])){
$this_dir = $_POST['txt_fileName'];
$get_dir = dirname($this_dir);
$d = dir("$get_dir");
while (false !== ($entry = $d->read())) {
	if (substr($entry, 0, 1) == '.') continue;
 		$files[] = $entry;
}
$d->close();
echo "<pre>";
print_r($files);
echo "</pre>";

 $myFile = $_FILES['txt_file']; // This will make an array out of the file information that was stored. 
 $file = $myFile['tmp_name'];  //Converts the array into a new string containing the path name on the server where your file is. 
 $myFileName = $myFile['name']; //Retrieve filename out of file path 
 $destination_file = $myFileName;  //where you want to throw the file on the webserver (relative to your login dir) 

 $ftp_server = "xx";
 $ftp_user_name = "xx";
 $ftp_user_pass = "xx";
 $conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);        // set up basic connection 
 $login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass) or die("<h2>You do not have access to this ftp server!</h2>");  // login with username and password, or give invalid user message 
 if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {  // check connection 
         // wont ever hit this, b/c of the die call on ftp_login 
         echo "FTP connection has failed! <br />"; 
         echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_user_name"; 
         exit; 
     } else { 
     //    echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $ftp_user_name <br />"; 
 } 
 $upload = ftp_put($conn_id, $destination_file, $file, FTP_BINARY);  // upload the file 
 if (!$upload) {  // check upload status 
     echo "<h2>FTP upload of $myFileName has failed!</h2> <br />"; 
 } else { 
     echo "Uploading $myFileName Complete!<br /><br />"; 
 } 
 ftp_close($conn_id); // close the FTP stream
}
?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="POST"> 
<p>Please choose a file: 
<input name="txt_file" type="file" id="txt_file" tabindex="1" size="35" onChange="txt_fileName.value=txt_file.value" /> 
<input name="txt_fileName" type="hidden" id="txt_fileName" tabindex="99" size="1" /> 
<input type="submit" name="SubmitFile" value="Upload File" /> 
</p>
</form> 
</body> 
</html>

mark_kccs

If anyone can help with this i would be very grateful. Just want to know if i'm in the right area or barking up the wrong tree.