PHP 7.0.6 Released

ftp_fget

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

ftp_fgetDownloads a file from the FTP server and saves to an open file

Description

bool ftp_fget ( resource $ftp_stream , resource $handle , string $remote_file , int $mode [, int $resumepos = 0 ] )

ftp_fget() retrieves remote_file from the FTP server, and writes it to the given file pointer.

Parameters

ftp_stream

The link identifier of the FTP connection.

handle

An open file pointer in which we store the data.

remote_file

The remote file path.

mode

The transfer mode. Must be either FTP_ASCII or FTP_BINARY.

resumepos

The position in the remote file to start downloading from.

Return Values

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Examples

Example #1 ftp_fget() example

<?php

// path to remote file
$remote_file 'somefile.txt';
$local_file 'localfile.txt';

// open some file to write to
$handle fopen($local_file'w');

// set up basic connection
$conn_id ftp_connect($ftp_server);

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

// try to download $remote_file and save it to $handle
if (ftp_fget($conn_id$handle$remote_fileFTP_ASCII0)) {
 echo 
"successfully written to $local_file\n";
} else {
 echo 
"There was a problem while downloading $remote_file to $local_file\n";
}

// close the connection and the file handler
ftp_close($conn_id);
fclose($handle);
?>

See Also

  • ftp_get() - Downloads a file from the FTP server
  • ftp_nb_get() - Retrieves a file from the FTP server and writes it to a local file (non-blocking)
  • ftp_nb_fget() - Retrieves a file from the FTP server and writes it to an open file (non-blocking)

User Contributed Notes

broom at alturnanetworks dot com
7 years ago
Another ftp_get_contents approach, using a temperary stream handler. Returns file contents as string.

<?php
function ftp_get_contents ($conn_id, $filename,
//Create temp handler:
   
$tempHandle = fopen('php://temp', 'r+');

//Get file from FTP assuming that it exists:
   
ftp_fget($conn_id, $tempHandle, $filename, FTP_ASCII, 0));

   
//Getting detailed stats to check filesize:
   
$fstats = fstat($tempHandle);

    return
fread($tempHandle, $fstats['size']);
}
?>
broom at alturnanetworks dot com
7 years ago
<?php
/**
* Function returns contents via FTP connection and returns it as string (right version...)
*/
function ftp_get_contents ($conn_id, $filename) {
   
//Create temp handler:
   
$tempHandle = fopen('php://temp', 'r+');
   
   
//Get file from FTP:
   
if (@ftp_fget($conn_id, $tempHandle, $filename, FTP_ASCII, 0)) {
       
rewind($tempHandle);
        return
stream_get_contents($tempHandle);
    } else {
        return
false;
    }
}
?>
mike at eastghost dot com
3 years ago
You might need to use ftp_pasv() if you're behind a firewall and receiving odd timeouts, file creation but now local data saving, etc.
rodrigo-rocha at oi dot net dot br
13 years ago
If you suply only a filename to the second parameter of function the ftp_get will open a pointer to the local file creating it and write to it.It's ok if your server dont execute for to mutch time and you dont get too many files but if you do it too many times the pointers created by ftp_get will not be closed and will end your opened files capacity at your server making it to do not open any more files until you restart it.
justrafi at gmail dot com
8 years ago
I was in need to synchronize two folders on two separate servers, one is a Windows server, and the other is a Linux server. I created this short and sweet function to help me do this. PLEASE NOTICE: This will not copy folders, and probably will fail if remote folder contains anything else than files.

function sync_folders($host, $port, $username, $password, $remote_dir, $local_dir, $passive_mode = true) {
    $conn_id = ftp_connect($host, $port);
    if (!$conn_id) return false; # fail to connect
    if (!ftp_login($conn_id, $username, $password)) { ftp_close($conn_id); return false; }  # fail to login
    ftp_pasv($conn_id, $passive_mode);
    if (!ftp_chdir($conn_id, $remote_dir)) { ftp_close($conn_id); return false; } # fail to change dir
    if (substr($local_dir, -1) != '/') $local_dir .= '/';

    $list = ftp_nlist($conn_id, '.');
    sort($list);
    foreach ($list as $file) {
        if (!file_exists($local_dir . $file)) {
            $is_copied = ftp_get($conn_id, $local_dir . $file, $file, FTP_BINARY);
        }
    }
    ftp_close($conn_id);
    return true;
}
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