Re: FTP Problems

James Nunnerley wrote: > Thanks for the reply Chris. > > How would you suggest displaying the current "home" directory for the user? > I've tried / and indeed the "real" directory name on that particular server. you could try '~/' (or maybe just'~') as the dir name which equates to the 'the current users homedir' when you in a shell - no idea whether that is even allowable when going in via ftp but might be worth a shot though - given what you have been saying in your thread one would hazard to guess that the ftp server your working with is a little borked (but that a gut feeling). > > Funnily enough, I've also just tried a generic php/ftp script tool, and it > works on a third party server into the one I'm trying to connect to, but not > from the server I'm working on! > > Is there anyway in which php needs configuring for certain connections? > > -----Original Message----- > From: chris smith [mailto:dmagick@gmail.com] > Sent: 27 June 2006 14:16 > To: James Nunnerley > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] FTP Problems > > On 6/27/06, James Nunnerley <webmaster@webit.co.uk> wrote: >> I'm trying to create some functionality which requires FTPing onto another >> server, using the php functions. >> >> Doing the following comes up with a successful login, but cannot display > the >> current directory; yet when I FTP directory from the server which is > serving >> the php pages, it works fine. >> >> // set up basic connection >> $conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server, 21); >> ftp_pasv($conn_id, true); >> >> // login with username and password >> $login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $username, $password); >> >> // check connection >> if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) { >> >> echo "FTP connection has failed!"; >> echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $username<br />"; >> exit; >> >> } else { >> >> echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $username<br />"; >> >> } >> >> echo(ftp_pwd($conn_id)."<br />"); # Comes back with / >> >> $buff = ftp_nlist($conn_id,""); > > ftp_nlist requires a directory name. A blank string is not a directory name. > > http://au.php.net/ftp_nlist >