help: Copy file from server to server

[Anon]

its basically an upload script but the user will enter a web address and the remote file will be stored in a folder. its the remote file bit thats the problem, i have file uploading from a users computer working fine, i just cant get a file from a web address to upload/download. can anyone help me please?

contact by email or icq(76892181) would be appreciated.

stuart

[[deleted]]

There are tools for that. think of rcp, scp, and even FTP. Those tools have been around for centuries.

PS
"contact by email or icq(76892181) would be appreciated. "

It's not very polite to just ask a question and expect us to contact you personally. It makes it look like you're too lazy to come back here and check for possible answers.

[Anon]

sorry for the arrogant looking request at the end but what i mean is it might mean i could explain it better.

about the ftp etc. well i want users to move zip files from another site into a folder on my webspace with having to download them and re-upload them first (what with 56k and all) and i've been trying to figure it out all week and gotten nowhere.

again sorry for the way my original request was worded

[[deleted]]

Well if I were you I'd go for rcp or scp, and simply do
exec('rcp source destination');
to copy the file,
or use an FTP connection (heck even fopen() could do it). It's not that difficult. 🙂

[Anon]

Hi Vincent (and everybody else),

It looks, like you could propablly have tips for the following problem:

I want to let a PHP-script move a file from an ftp-server to the webserver the PHP is running on.

My steps:
1) create a file handle for destination:
$fp = fopen("myfile.pdf","w+");

2) connect to ftp, receiving a file handle for the ftp-connection (named e.g. $ftp_con)

3) fill a variable with the destination file name
$dest = ""mydestinationfile.pdf"

4) get the file from ftp and put it into the file handle $fp (myfile.pdf)
ftp_fget ($ftp_con, $fp, $dest, FTP_BINARY)

5) close all connections

After this actions, the file is copied into the folder on the webserver where the php-script is lying. ok.
Now the Problem:
The file is bigger (about 5-10% more Bytes) than the original, and corrupted. It can not be used anymore.

Even when transferring at the ASCII-mode the prob occurs.
What do I do wrong? I´m pulling my hairs out, really!

If you don´t want me being bald, pleease give me a hint! ;-)

Thanks in advance.
Georg