FTP commands

[jadeg]

I am trying to list the files in a particular directly from a php script. ftp_pwd works fine but ftp_nlist or ftp_rawlist do not any idea why this could be so?

[Zane]

Are the files on the same server as your script?  If so, there is no reason to use FTP at all.

You can use glob() to get an array of files.

[Psycho]

Did you turn on error reporting? If not, turn it on. If so, what errors are you receiving? Heck, you may be using the commands wrong for all we know, but since you failed to provide a single line of code we would only be guessing.

[jadeg]

The files are not on the same file as the script. This is my code so far 

<?php
$ftp_server="eeeproject.host22.com";
$ftp_user_name="user";
$ftp_user_pass="password";
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die ("Couldn't connect to $ftp_server");
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
	if($login_result){
	    ftp_chdir($conn_id, "public_html");
            echo ftp_pwd($conn_id);
            $buff= ftp_nlist($conn_id, '.');	
            var_dump($buff);

}
ftp_close($conn_id);
?>

[Psycho]

Works for me on my FTP server. Are you getting any output for the var_dump()? You should get a Boolean false if the function is failing.

[jazzman1]

Most likely this library isn't installed to this version of php. Did you try to turn on error reporting as Psycho suggested above? I believe not. You would also check whether a ftp_connect function exists or not to your current version of laguage:

if(!function_exists('ftp_connect')){
  echo "Not exist";
} else {
  echo "Exists";
}

// to get all defined functions

echo '<pre>'.print_r(get_defined_functions(),true).'</pre>';

[jadeg]

ftp_connect definitely exists I have tried that. Psycho as you mentioned I am getting a boolen false meaning the function is falling. My question is what can I do to correct that 

[jazzman1]

I'm not familiar with this library, however, at a starting point add the following error reporting functions on top of the file. 

<?php
ini_set('display_startup_errors',1);
ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(-1);
$ftp_server="eeeproject.host22.com";
$ftp_user_name="user";
$ftp_user_pass="password";
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die ("Couldn't connect to $ftp_server");
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
    if($login_result){
     ftp_chdir($conn_id, "public_html");
echo ftp_pwd($conn_id);
$buff= ftp_nlist($conn_id, '.');    
var_dump($buff);

}
ftp_close($conn_id);

What OS is the server running?

[jadeg]

It's on windows 

[jazzman1]

Try to set the second parameter of a ftp_nlist function to null or to empty string, both cases work to me (linux server).

$buff= ftp_nlist($conn_id, '');

// or

$buff= ftp_nlist($conn_id, NULL);

You can also turn a passive mode on in case the ftp server required.

 

Try,

<?php
$ftp_server = "eeeproject.host22.com";
$ftp_user_name = "user";
$ftp_user_pass = "password";
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Couldn't connect to $ftp_server");
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
// turn passive mode to on
ftp_pasv($conn_id, true);
if ($login_result) {
    ftp_chdir($conn_id, "public_html");
    echo ftp_pwd($conn_id);
    $buff = ftp_nlist($conn_id,'.');
    var_dump($buff);
}
ftp_close($conn_id);

[jadeg]

Thanks! Got it working when passive mode was turned on