Unable to find ftpbuf 0

Anon

I get this error while trying to connect with an ftp server with ftp_connect
I use php 4.0 and haven't gat a clue where this error comes from??
Has anyone got anu experiance with this??

Anon

Having the same problem but haven't found a clear solution for it yet. The only thing I can think of is that it has something to do with the login message returned by the server.
I haven't found any other explanation anywhere, including PHP.net. Seems to work for most people.

Anon

omitting the $ sign in the variable used to hold the ftpstream will cause that (misleading) error-message.

So if you type:

$ftpstream = ftp_connect(...);
ftp_login(...);

ftp_put(ftpstream, ...);

you'll get 'ftpbuf 0' error(s). Giving any invalid stream handler will probably result in the same errormessage.

Anon

yes, can't figure what the hell either....starting to pull my hair out

Anon

I posted the solution too. If you specify an invalid ftp stream, you get that error. Check your declarations and assignment of the var you'll get from ftp_connect( ... )

Anon

I\'m having this same problem and I tried what you said but it still didn\'t work. Do you have any other I deals? The funny thing is that it work when I was testing my script but when I went to put it live it just stop working. The only thing I did was moved it from one location to another.

Anon

I had the same problem, but I found the solution: You have to initialize the variable you use as the ftp_stream:

$ftp_stream = 0;
$ftp_stream = ftp_connect( "ftp.domain.com" );

Then it should work!

Best wishes

Werner

www.bepc.de

hanbing

Same PHP code worked on my linux box but not on Windows 2000.
<?
$ftpcon = 0;
$ftpcon = ftp_connect("ftp.domain.com");
if(ftp_login($ftpcon,$username,$password))
echo "Connected to FTP<br>";
else
echo "failed<br>";
?>
Strange!

Anon

Non of the above mentioned solutions worked for me. Installing php 4.05 didnt fix the problem. Seems to be a windows problems. On Linux/Apache Server it seems not to cause any problems. If someone finds the "real" solution, let me know.

Anon

This isn't a Windows problem - we DO use Linux. The problem appears when the ftp server, which is connected, sends a welcome message... My above solution solved the problem...

skyhawke

In our case we had to access an external server through our firewall. In order to prevent the external site from opening a data connection we installed a mapping in the firewall to redirect all traffic for a certain (internal) IP to a specific external one. That made us enter the internal ip into ftp_connect('192.168.0.55').
All we got was the stupid ftpbuf 0 error. After heavy experiments we came up with something that's probably a bug in the FTP functions:

Insert a line in your local hosts file that says something like

192.168.0.55 dummyForPHP

Now use ftp_connect('dummyForPHP') and see...
That's what helped us.

We came to that solution when one of us remembered that at home he could only use "127.0.0.1" for his local server as long as an internet connection was established. When he disconnected it he had to use "localhost" or the machine's name to connect. Probably the ftp_connect() function tries to make a forward DNS lookup regardless of what you provide as parameter. So it naturally fails when trying to find a corresponding IP address for another IP address.

Hope this helps.

Anon

I get:

Unable to find ftpbuf 1

when I try to do ftp_cdup after the connection and login. After the login I store the value returned from ftp_connect in a PHP session, which I retrieve the next time time someone wants to do something. It contains the same value, which is 1, but it never works.

Any ideas?

Thanks

kruisje

a possible cause of the error might also be this:

if I want to connect to eg. ftp://users.pandora.be/ and I do this by using:

 $ftpstream = ftp_connect("ftp://users.pandora.be");

then it will cause the error to occur, because the ftp:// was included.

Hence, if you omit this, the error will not occur. So the correct way to do this is:

 $ftpstream = ftp_connect("users.pandora.be");

That's what the problem was when i got the error.

Anon

Your a genius....

The solution was simple but it sure worked for me.. no more buf=0 errors

Hoorah!!!

Thanks a lot whoever you are, you deserve a pat on the back

Anon

as conserne the ftpbuf 0 erreur message it may be cause by ftp server acces rights too verify if you are using a valid account

Anon

I was having the same problem when I was asking PHP to log on and off the ftp server as part of a loop. i.e. getting it to complete the whole process hundreds of times.

I didn't get this problem once I had taken the login and off outside the loop.

Anon

What helped me out was resolving the ftp server adress to an ipadres. Very strange .. but it works ..

$conn_id = ftp_connect("xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx");

jsysel

I'm still looking for solution. I have tried everything what was here written but nothing helped me. It doesn't work with IP address, it doesn't work with or without ftp:// Login information is correct. What to do now???

Anon

Had similar problem using PHP4 on Apache WinXP, trying to connect to Win2k ftp server.

The only way it will work is if I type in an IP address in the ftp_connect function.

I wanted to set the IP address or hostname to a string ie:

$string="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx";
$connid=ftp_connect($string);
ftplogin($connid, $username, $password);

but it just gave me the 'Unable to find ftpbuf 0' error.

If I do the following, however,

$connid=ftp_connect("xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx");
ftplogin($connid, $username, $password);

it works.

I don't understand why... and it's just lucky that there's only one ftp site I want to use, can't put 'selection' criteria into the script.

Anyway, hope this helps a bit.

Jase