FTP: Uploading a File | Spring Into PHP 5

In the previous chunk, we downloaded a file by using FTP. In this chunk, we're going to upload a file by using ftp_put:

 ftp_put(resource ftp_stream, string remote_file, string local_file, int mode [, int startpos])

This function stores local_file (which can be specified with a pathname) on the FTP server as remote_file. The transfer mode specified must be either FTP_ASCII or FTP_BINARY. It returns trUE on success or FALSE on failure. As an example, we'll upload a file named newscript.php to an FTP site as script.php. We start by connecting:

 $connect = ftp_connect("ftp.ispname.com"); $result = ftp_login($connect, "username", "password"); if(!$result){     echo "Could not connect.";     exit; }

Then we use ftp_put to upload the file, and we check the result:

 $connect = ftp_connect("ftp.ispname.com"); $result = ftp_login($connect, "username", "password"); if(!$result){     echo "Could not connect.";     exit; } $result = ftp_put($connect, "newscript.php", "script.php", FTP_ASCII); if($result){     echo "Sent the file."; } else {     echo "Did not send the file."; }

You can see this all at work in Example 9-6, phpftpput.php.

Example 9-6. Uploading a file, phpftpput.php

 <HTML>     <HEAD>         <TITLE>             Putting a file with FTP         </TITLE>     </HEAD>     <BODY>         <CENTER>             <H1>Putting a file with FTP</H1>             Uploading the file....             <BR>             <?php                 $connect = ftp_connect("ftp.ispname.com");                 $result = ftp_login($connect, "username", "password");                 if(!$result){                     echo "Could not connect.";                     exit;                 }                 $result = ftp_put($connect, "newscript.php", "script.php",                                   FTP_ASCII);                 if($result){                     echo "Sent the file.";                 }                 else {                     echo "Did not send the file.";                 }                 ftp_close($connect);             ?>          </CENTER>     <BODY> </HTML>

The results appear in Figure 9-7, where, as you can see, we've successfully uploaded the file.

Figure 9-7. Uploading a file.