[RESOLVED] Changing a File remotly

[patelhiteshp]

Programmers,

I have a problem regarding accessing a file remotly.
Can someone help me in that?

I'll explain my problem thru example.

Example :

My website is @ http://95.165.168.168/newsite/ this URL.
The file which I wanted to access is @ 92.168.165.153 this machine in c://reservation/new.xml location.

As you can see
1. My reservation file is on another machine
2. My webapplication is on another server.

Now I want my website / webapplication to change the file which is @
92.168.165.153 server. I have the Admin login information ie. username and password
of the this machine. I can able to connect 92.168.165.153 machin thru php FTP code, but
I can not able to change the file containts.

Can any one suggest me how can I achive this using php code.

Hitesh

[maxpup979]

So you can connect through php to the ftp server, but cannot change the file? Check the file permissions.

[patelhiteshp]

I checked permission, I Set the folder permission to Write mode too.
Still it is not working

[patelhiteshp]

I changed the file name Successfully.
Now i need to Download a server's file on local machine.....

I have attached code of this below....

<?php
echo "<br>--------------------------------Connecting
$ftp_server = "192.168.1.14"; // Server Where the Original File resides
$ftp_user_name = "username";
$ftp_user_pass = "pw";
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Could not Connect To 192.168.1.134");
if($conn_id)
echo "<br>Successfully FTP Connect With 192.168.1.14";

$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass) or die("<br>Login Problem : ");
if($login_result)
    echo "<br>Successfully FTP Login in 192.168.1.14";

   $local_fileget = "h_get.txt"; // In FTP file Folder on Local Machine
$server_fileget = "/test/h_stop.txt"; // File Position in Server - FTP folder

if (ftp_get($conn, $local_fileget, $server_fileget,FTP_ASCII)) //  ftp_gets not working
{
    echo "<br><br>Successfully GET to $local_fileget To make Changes\n";
}
else
{
    echo "<br><br>There was a problem while Getting the File to Local machine\n";
}

    // Close the connection
ftp_close($conn_id);

?>

[rajug]

Try out this which successfully running code:

# define some variables
$local_file = 'aa.txt';
$server_file = 'aa.txt';

# set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect("myservername.com");

# login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, "myftpuser", "myftpasswd");
ftp_pasv($conn_id, true);
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {
    die("FTP connection has failed !");
}

echo "Current directory: " . ftp_pwd($conn_id) . "\n";
ftp_chdir($conn_id, "httpdocs");
echo "Current directory: " . ftp_pwd($conn_id) . "\n";
# try to download $server_file and save to $local_file
if (ftp_get($conn_id, $local_file, $server_file, FTP_ASCII,0)){
	echo "Successfully downloaded\n";
}
else{
	echo "There was a problem\n";
}
# close the connection
ftp_close($conn_id);

[patelhiteshp]

Hurrey.....

That is Working Thank you so much...

That will roll my code a bit....

Stay tune. May be I am throwing another Question.. 😉

Thank you

[patelhiteshp]

Hey Dude,

but putting a File back on a local machine with following code is not working,,

<?php
$lo_fi = "/test/h_stop.txt";
$se_fi = "h_stop_new.txt";

ftp_pwd($conn_id);
ftp_chdir($conn_id, "httpdocs");
ftp_pwd($conn_id);

# try to download $server_file and save to $local_file
if (ftp_put($conn_id, $se_fi, $lo_fi, FTP_ASCII,0))
{
	echo "<br>Successfully downloaded\n";
}
else
{
	echo "<br>There was a problem While PUTTING A File\n";
}

?>

can you please tell me where I made a Mistake..

[rajug]

This path is not correct as far as i can guess. You want to download the file in the test folder/directory which is in the current path.
so change this line:

$lo_fi = "/test/h_stop.txt";

To

$lo_fi = "./test/h_stop.txt";
# Or simply
$lo_fi = "test/h_stop.txt";

Does that help you?

[patelhiteshp]

Yes Its done..

Actually The problem was with permission.

After creating a file on server, I needed to change the permission to 777.
Now its working.

By the way

Thank you so much for your Help and Time

[patelhiteshp]

Dude but its not working on outside the Network....

why it is so?
Do I need to change my code, if I need to connect a computer thru FTP outside the Network.

Same thing is bugging me. I am able to Connect to that machine thru FTP as well as I am able to change the File name, but can not copy the file from FTP location to my website server.

Can you help me ahead in this?

[rajug]

I am not sure about the local network if you are talking about local network. Someone PHP expert can say here this forum.

Good luck man!

[patelhiteshp]

Can you please tell me why Do we need follwing Statements?
I dont know, what they do?
Can you please Exmplain me that...

ftp_pasv($conn_id, true);

and these 3....

echo "Current directory: " . ftp_pwd($conn_id) . "\n";
ftp_chdir($conn_id, "httpdocs");
echo "Current directory: " . ftp_pwd($conn_id) . "\n";

thank you

[rajug]

See this for ftp_pasv() function:
http://www.php.net/ftp_pasv

echos are just for testing to know your current directory. ftp_chdir() is for changing the directory to your file particular directory where the working file is located.

[patelhiteshp]

That is Very true..

But in My case Why do we need to change the Web directory.
In other words,
I didnt get the login behind that..

Can you explain me that please?

[patelhiteshp]

Why I need to bother about the Firewall.
Don't you think that the FTP should handle all these issues..

If I have FTP password that I am the authentic person to access the Machine...