Re: setting up FTP account names via PHP
| From: | Sancar Saran | Date: | Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:06:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: setting up FTP account names via PHP | ||
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On Monday 05 January 2009 16:29:09 Merlin Morgenstern wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am running a real estate site where I would like to enable bulk upload
> via real estate software that exports an xml file into an ftp account.
>
> In order to give every user unique access I would need to generate
> individual ftp name and passwords for each member. I can not see how
> this should work. My portal is written in PHP 4.x and there every
> members loges in with a unique ID. The FTP Server runns on the same
> linux machine. How could I generate users for this FTP server with php,
> for example on sign up?
>
> Thank you for any help on this.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Merlin
If those xml files not that big, you may consider uploading with php.
Or perhaps you may find an ftp server which can use mysql database for
authentication.