note 72615 added to ref.ftp

A function to get a remote file and return it's contents, instead of saving to a local file, was missing - here it is: function ftp_fetch($ftp_stream, $remote_file) { ob_end_flush(); ob_start(); $out = fopen('php://output', 'w'); if (!ftp_fget($ftp_stream, $out, $remote_file, FTP_ASCII)) die('Unable to get file: ' . $remote_file); fclose($out); $data = ob_get_clean(); return $data; } It works the same as ftp_get(), but instead returns the contents of the remote file - for example: $ftp = ftp_connect('my.server.com', 21, 60); ftp_login($ftp, 'username', 'password'); $data = ftp_fetch($ftp, 'path/to/remote.file'); echo $data; Note, I use it to fetch text-files from a server - if you need to fetch binary files, change FTP_ASCII to FTP_BINARY .. but most likely, getting files to memory is only useful for smaller files, e.g. plain text, xml, etc. ---- Server IP: 195.184.96.15 Probable Submitter: 82.143.224.4 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.ftp.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/72615 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72615/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72615/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72615/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72615/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72615/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72615/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/72615 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/72615 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php