ftp download

[Philosophaie]

I am trying to upload a file to the user activating this link. This is missing a key element like an fputs or something?

PHP Code:

function planetaryorbits(){
        $source = "/home/rubeum/public_html/PlanetaryOrbits.xlsm";
        $target = fopen("/home/rubeum/public_html/PlanetaryOrbits.xlsm", "w");
        $conn = @ftp_connect("ftp.webserver.com") or die("Could not connect");
        ftp_login($conn,"user","pass") or die("Could not login");
        ftp_fget($conn,$target,$source,FTP_ASCII);
        ftp_close($conn);
    } 


[Fou-Lu]

Upload or download? You describe upload, but this one here downloads. To upload you'd use ftp_[f]put instead. It is also possible that the file as you are looking for with the path is invalid, so you'll need to check if that exists with ftp_nlist or ftp_rawlist and navigating as necessary. Actually, now that I think of it I'm not sure if you can command an ftp server to give you a file with a filepath; it may only be happy with a file name based on the pwd. And I can't test that right now either.

The "user" in this scope would be that of the connection to ftp.webserver.com of course; you can't force an ftp connection to a client, although if they have ftp services enabled you can connect to them if you pull their ip from remote host (and if its accurate) and transfer a file that way too. That would be sandboxed into the environment that they have supplied as a valid location. I would deem that as an unreliable option, for which you should prompt them with a save dialog and serve it over http instead.

[Philosophaie]

A link from the website downloads a file using ftp from my server.

Both paths ($source and $target) are from the root directory of my server.

These my be incorrect.