RE: [PHP] Copy Function Errors

> -----Original Message----- > From: Wei, Alice J. [mailto:ajwei@indiana.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:46 PM > To: Robert Cummings > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] Copy Function Errors ---8<--- snip > > Is there something I could do here to allow my file be "copied" to > the remote server? > > Use the ftp functions. > > Thanks for the tip. I have revised my code to: > > // define some variables > $local_file = "C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/test/$id/beamdata.tar"; > $server_file = > "http://192.168.10.63/test/$id/beamdata.tar"; > > // set up basic connection > $ftp_server="http://192.168.10.63"; > $conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server); > > // login with username and password > $ftp_user_name="apache"; > $ftp_user_pass="xxxxx"; > $login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass); > > // try to download $server_file and save to $local_file > if (ftp_get($conn_id, $local_file, $server_file, FTP_BINARY)) { > echo "Successfully written to $local_file\n"; > } else { > echo "There was a problem\n"; > } > > // close the connection > ftp_close($conn_id); > > I have put this snippet in the local server of where I want the files > to be copied to. However, I see this on my remote server in the logs: > > 192.168.10.62 - - [16/Jul/2008:16:40:24 -0400] "GET > /beam_calculation.php?id=145&no=16 HTTP/1.1" 200 22 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 > (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR > 2.0.50727)" > > Is there something I have missed here? Alice, Here are some Wikipedia articles that should give you a good start on understanding the fundamental differences between the two protocols you are confusing with each other: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP HTTP itself does not intrinsically handle file uploads in a server/client relationship. Web forms that include file uploads generally have a handler function on the other end, and post files via a form element. FTP's main function is the transfer of files (hence [F]ile [T]ransfer [P]rotocol), and is more in line with what you're trying to do here. HTH, Todd Boyd Web Programmer