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PHP:How to connect to a unix box, run a script and ftp back the generated file to local box
I want to be able to connect to a unix box from my windows machine where I am running my PHP script. I would like to run my perl script on the unix box which generates a text file. I would then like to ftp file back to my local box for display on the web site. How can this be done in php.
oops: to run the remote cgi-script:
<?php
$runscript = fopen("http://servername/cgi-bin/script.pl");
fclose($runscript);
?>
should do it afaik :-)
<?php
$runscript = fopen("http://servername/cgi-bin/script.pl");
fclose($runscript);
?>
should do it afaik :-)
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So I would run first run my perl script and then do the ftp. So there is just no way to do without accessing this perl script through URL. I mean doesn't PHP provide anything that would allow you to run something like SSH and then run the script at the remote server and then run the ftp to get the file back?
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one of the things you can do is put it in your cgi-bin directory.
the text file it generates should be dumped (ofcourse) in an ftp-readable directory or (this is easier, imho) it could put it somewhere in one of your web-accessible directories.
depending on the option you choose (i'm assuming you want ftp):
ftp:
<?php
$ftpconn = ftp_connect($ftpserver); //$ftpserver = IP or FQDN
$ftplogin = ftp_login($ftpconn, $ftpuser, $ftppass);
$fp = fopen("path_to_where_file_
if ($ftpconn && $ftplogin) { //both are booleans
if (ftp_fget($ftpconn, $savefilepath, "remote_filename", FTP_ASCII)){
echo "File successfully downloaded";
}
}
ftp_close($ftpconn);
?>
(if you saved the file on a webaccessible server, it'd be something like this:)
<?php
$remotefp = fopen("http://servername/filename.txt, "r");
$fp = fopen(("path_to_where_file
do {
$data = fread($remotefp, 4096);
if strlen($data) == 0) {
break;
}
fputs($fp, $data);
}
fclose($fp);
fclose($remotefp);
?>
hope this helps,
cheers,
Andy