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PHP FTP Upload Help

Hi,

I am trying to create a FTP upload option for a school that utilizes a hosted content managemnt site. I tried using C# and that worked through visual studios utilizing inline coding but when I tried to use it on the CMS then it did not work. The hosting site confirmed that they do not support custom C# pages. So now I am trying to use PHP but for some reason my code just seems not to work outside of the CMS

The following is the PHP script that I would like to get working. Right now it seems to do nothing at all:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$ftp_server = "172.30.1.39";
$ftp_user_name = "user";
$ftp_user_pass = "password";
$destination_file = "/";
$source_file = $_FILES['file']['tmp_name']; 

// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
ftp_pasv($conn_id, true); 

// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass); 

// check connection
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) { 
    echo "FTP connection has failed!";
    echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_user_name"; 
    exit; 
} else {
    echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $ftp_user_name";
}

// upload the file
$upload = ftp_put($conn_id, $destination_file, $source_file, FTP_BINARY); 

// check upload status
if (!$upload) { 
echo "FTP upload has failed!";
} else {
echo "Uploaded $source_file to $ftp_server as $destination_file";
}

// close the FTP stream 
ftp_close($conn_id);
?>
<form action="" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
<input name="file" type="file" />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Upload File" />
</form>


</body>
</html>

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gr8gonzo

The PHP installation might not have the FTP extension compiled in.

You can try using a pure-PHP version of FTP, like this:
http://www.phpclasses.org/package/1743-PHP-FTP-client-in-pure-PHP.html

gr8gonzo

If you want, you can also do a quick check to confirm that that's the problem. Just create a new, empty script with these two lines:

<?php
echo (function_exists("ftp_connect") ? "FTP support exists!" : "FTP support does not exist!");

Ray Paseur

I think you want to upload a file from a client machine to the server, is that right?

thomasm1948

ASKER

that is correct. We have an FTP site created and I am trying to see if this CMS will allow us to use PHP

thomasm1948

ASKER

I can create a ASPX page in C# and everything works but the CMS will not let me upload C# code

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Ray Paseur

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thomasm1948

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we are using eschoolview

gr8gonzo

Did you run the test I suggested?

Ray Paseur

Have you asked their support what language their CMS is using? I can't find that detail in their web site.
http://www.eschoolview.com/School-CMS-Support.aspx

thomasm1948

ASKER

yes I asked, they suggested that I jus create my own upload page and then use JavaScript in their CMS to show the log in and upload information.

thomasm1948

ASKER

I just ran this code on my Linux server and I cannot connect to the ftp server

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Simple FTP Upload Script using PHP by 2netlodge</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
if(isset($_POST['ftp']))
     {
            $ftp = $_POST['ftp'];
            $username = $_POST['username'];
            $pwd = $_POST['pwd'];
            $filename = $_FILES['file']['name'];
            $tmp = $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'];
            $d = $_POST['des'];

            $connect = ftp_connect($ftp)or die("Unable to connect to host");
            ftp_login($connect,$username,$pwd)or die("Authorization Failed");
            echo "Connected!<br/>";

            if(!$filename)
                  {
                        echo"Please select a file";
                  }
            else
                  {
                        ftp_put($connect,$d.'/'.$filename,$tmp,FTP_ASCII)or die("Unable to upload");
                                    echo"File successfully uploaded to FTP";
                  }
      }
?>
<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="text" name="ftp" placeholder="FTP link"/><br/>
<input type="text" name="username" placeholder="Username"/><br/>
<input type="password" name="pwd" placeholder="Password"/><br/>
<input type="file" name="file" /><br/>
<input type="text" name="des" placeholder="Destination" /><br/>
<br/><input type="submit" value="Upload"/></form>
<footer>Share and get more scripts and codes like this, visit <a href="http://2netlodge.com">http://2netlodge.com</a> Forum</footer>
</body>
</html>

thomasm1948

ASKER

All what I really need is for the user to put a username and password in

I figure the code should be able to point to localhost or its own ip. The FTP users that I created point to a shared home directory and they do not need to actually put a path in

thomasm1948

ASKER

Just running some test and I cannot connect to the ftp server from PHP. I can log in, if I go to ftp:// just fine. I would do this in .NET but I already started everything in LINUX. Please help

<?php
$un='Student';
$pw='Kilo1948';

// Connect to ftp
$conn_id = ftp_connect('localhost', 21);

// Open a session to an external ftp site
$login_result = ftp_login ($conn_id, $un, $pw);

// Check open
if (!$conn_id) {
print "FTP connection failed!";
exit();
}

if (!!$login_result) {
print "FTP login failed!";
exit();
}
if (ftp_pasv($conn_id, true) == FALSE) {
print "Passive FTP connection failed!";
exit();

}

?>

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thomasm1948

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I am not sure how to do that in centos

I ran setsebool httpd_can_network_connect=1 and now I get passed the connection error, but the login fails even though it is correct

How can I ensure on centos 6.5 that PHP has the ftp extensions. I admit I just ran yum install php

thomasm1948

ASKER

ok just ran yum install php-ftp and I got a message indicating that I am running the latest php common install

thomasm1948

ASKER

I got it to work.

gr8gonzo

Can you say how?

thomasm1948

ASKER

When I removed PHP, the built in PHP on centos seemed to have worked. There was some sort of confliction and I thought I had to install the PHP. Weird.... I also entered this command

httpd_can_network_connect=1

thomasm1948

ASKER

Thank you for all for help