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ftp_get

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

ftp_getLädt eine Datei von einem FTP-Server herunter

Beschreibung

ftp_get(
    FTP\Connection $ftp,
    string $local_filename,
    string $remote_filename,
    int $mode = FTP_BINARY,
    int $offset = 0
): bool

ftp_get() lädt eine Datei vom FTP-Server herunter und speichert sie in eine lokale Datei.

Parameter-Liste

ftp

Eine FTP\Connection-Instanz.

local_filename

Der lokale Dateipfad (wird überschrieben, falls die Datei schon existiert).

remote_filename

Der Pfad zur Datei auf dem Server.

mode

Der Transfer-Modus. Muss entweder FTP_ASCII oder FTP_BINARY sein.

offset

Die Position in der entfernten Datei, ab der der Download beginnen soll.

Rückgabewerte

Gibt bei Erfolg true zurück. Bei einem Fehler wird false zurückgegeben.

Changelog

Version Beschreibung
8.1.0 Der Parameter ftp erwartet nun eine FTP\Connection-Instanz; vorher wurde eine Ressource erwartet.
7.3.0 Der Parameter mode ist nun optional. Zuvor war er verpflichtend.

Beispiele

Beispiel #1 ftp_get()-Beispiel

<?php

// Variablen definieren
$local_file = 'local.zip';
$server_file = 'server.zip';

// Verbindung aufbauen
$ftp = ftp_connect($ftp_server);

// Login mit Benutzername und Passwort
$login_result = ftp_login($ftp, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);

// Versuche, $server_file herunterzuladen und in $local_file zu speichern
if (ftp_get($ftp, $local_file, $server_file, FTP_BINARY)) {
echo
"$local_file wurde erfolgreich geschrieben\n";
} else {
echo
"Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten\n";
}

// Verbindung schließen
ftp_close($ftp);

?>

Siehe auch

  • ftp_pasv() - Schaltet den passiven Modus ein oder aus
  • ftp_fget() - Lädt eine Datei vom FTP-Server und speichert sie in eine geöffnete Datei
  • ftp_nb_get() - Überträgt eine Datei vom FTP-Server und speichert sie lokal (nicht blockierend)
  • ftp_nb_fget() - Ruft eine Datei vom FTP-Server ab und schreibt sie in eine lokale Datei (nicht-blockierend)

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User Contributed Notes 14 notes

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CuDi
15 years ago
I tried to ftp a 7mb file today off my webserver.

I copied this example directly and it told me.

Port command successful
"there was a problem"

I thought it was because of the size.
But I guessed it might be cause of my firewall.

So I made the ftp connection passive:

<?PHP

...
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
ftp_pasv($conn_id, true);

?>

Ran the script again & it worked fine.

Hope this helps someone
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36
bob at notallhere dot com
11 years ago
Don't want to use an intermediate file? Use 'php://output' as the filename and then capture the output using output buffering.

ob_start();
$result = ftp_get($ftp, "php://output", $file, FTP_BINARY);
$data = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

Don't forget to check $result to make sure there wasn't an error. After that, manipulate the $data variable however you want.
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ramiro at qusarcr dot com
22 years ago
Keep in mind that ftp_get will overwrite the file on your local machine if it has the same name.
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10
anomie at users dot sf dot net
17 years ago
Why there isn't an "ftp_get_contents" function, I don't know. It takes a little work to emulate one, but it's doable.
<?php
function ftp_get_contents($ftp_stream, $remote_file, $mode, $resume_pos=null){
$pipes=stream_socket_pair(STREAM_PF_UNIX, STREAM_SOCK_STREAM, STREAM_IPPROTO_IP);
if(
$pipes===false) return false;
if(!
stream_set_blocking($pipes[1], 0)){
fclose($pipes[0]); fclose($pipes[1]);
return
false;
}
$fail=false;
$data='';
if(
is_null($resume_pos)){
$ret=ftp_nb_fget($ftp_stream, $pipes[0], $remote_file, $mode);
} else {
$ret=ftp_nb_fget($ftp_stream, $pipes[0], $remote_file, $mode, $resume_pos);
}
while(
$ret==FTP_MOREDATA){
while(!
$fail && !feof($pipes[1])){
$r=fread($pipes[1], 8192);
if(
$r==='') break;
if(
$r===false){ $fail=true; break; }
$data.=$r;
}
$ret=ftp_nb_continue($ftp_stream);
}
while(!
$fail && !feof($pipes[1])){
$r=fread($pipes[1], 8192);
if(
$r==='') break;
if(
$r===false){ $fail=true; break; }
$data.=$r;
}
fclose($pipes[0]); fclose($pipes[1]);
if(
$fail || $ret!=FTP_FINISHED) return false;
return
$data;
}
?>

Something similar would work to write a ftp_put_contents function, too.
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Nate from ruggfamily.com
16 years ago
Here's a quick function that figures out the correct mode to use based on a file's extension.

<?php
function get_ftp_mode($file)
{
$path_parts = pathinfo($file);

if (!isset(
$path_parts['extension'])) return FTP_BINARY;
switch (
strtolower($path_parts['extension'])) {
case
'am':case 'asp':case 'bat':case 'c':case 'cfm':case 'cgi':case 'conf':
case
'cpp':case 'css':case 'dhtml':case 'diz':case 'h':case 'hpp':case 'htm':
case
'html':case 'in':case 'inc':case 'js':case 'm4':case 'mak':case 'nfs':
case
'nsi':case 'pas':case 'patch':case 'php':case 'php3':case 'php4':case 'php5':
case
'phtml':case 'pl':case 'po':case 'py':case 'qmail':case 'sh':case 'shtml':
case
'sql':case 'tcl':case 'tpl':case 'txt':case 'vbs':case 'xml':case 'xrc':
return
FTP_ASCII;
}
return
FTP_BINARY;
}

// sample usage
ftp_get($conn_id, $local_file, $server_file, get_ftp_mode($server_file));
?>
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mroerick at gmx dot net
15 years ago
ftp_sync is a way to walk the directory structure on the server and copy every directory and file to the same location locally.

<?php
$ftp_server
= "ftp.example.com";
$conn_id = ftp_connect ($ftp_server)
or die(
"Couldn't connect to $ftp_server");

$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, "user", "pass");
if ((!
$conn_id) || (!$login_result))
die(
"FTP Connection Failed");

ftp_sync ("DirectoryToCopy"); // Use "." if you are in the current directory

ftp_close($conn_id);

// ftp_sync - Copy directory and file structure
function ftp_sync ($dir) {

global
$conn_id;

if (
$dir != ".") {
if (
ftp_chdir($conn_id, $dir) == false) {
echo (
"Change Dir Failed: $dir<BR>\r\n");
return;
}
if (!(
is_dir($dir)))
mkdir($dir);
chdir ($dir);
}

$contents = ftp_nlist($conn_id, ".");
foreach (
$contents as $file) {

if (
$file == '.' || $file == '..')
continue;

if (@
ftp_chdir($conn_id, $file)) {
ftp_chdir ($conn_id, "..");
ftp_sync ($file);
}
else
ftp_get($conn_id, $file, $file, FTP_BINARY);
}

ftp_chdir ($conn_id, "..");
chdir ("..");

}
?>
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Aditya P dot Bhatt (adityabhai at gmail dot com)
16 years ago
<?php
// define some variables
$folder_path = "YOUR FOLDER PATH";
$local_file = "LOCAL FILE PATH";
$server_file = "SERVER FILE PATH";

//-- Connection Settings
$ftp_server = "IP ADDRESS"; // Address of FTP server.
$ftp_user_name = "USERNAME"; // Username
$ftp_user_pass = "PASSWORD"; // Password
#$destination_file = "FILEPATH";

// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);

// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($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($conn_id);
?>
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mpatnode at yahoo dot com
6 years ago
Note that PHP still defaults to FTP active mode by default, which is almost never used anymore since the creation of firewalls. Don't forget to add a ftp_pasv($conn, true) after your ftp_login.
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anomie at users dot sf dot net
17 years ago
Crud. The _nb_ only refers to reading from the ftp server, and the buffer in the socket pair is only about 364 bytes. So it doesn't work for files larger than that size.
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thivierr at telus dot net
21 years ago
If you previously downloaded a file before (like a huge web log), and just want to get the remaining portion, do this:

$local_file_size = filesize($local_file_path);
$get_result = ftp_get($conn_id, $local_file_path, $remote_file_path, FTP_BINARY, $local_file_size);

This same code works regardless of wether the local file exists already or not. You should first test to make sure the local file is not bigger than the remote file.
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administrator at gesoft dot org
18 years ago
Hello everybody,

If someone will try to download files to the same local file (some temporary file), like shown here:

<?php
foreach ($files as $key=>$path) {
...
$result = ftp_get($ftpConnId, 'temp.tmp', $path, FTP_BINARY);
...
}
?>

please take in consideration the fact that you will have big problems with downloading (getting) hole files. In other words ‘temp.tmp’ file always will have the same size equal to first downloaded file despite the real size of downloading file. I have not idea what is the reason!

If someone will think that problem is just in getting proper file size (which you will get using filssize() function) he will be mistaken. The download file’s size is not equal to source file’s size materially, that means fflush() function will not solve the problem (I have tried this as well).

Finally the solution was founded: before downloading a file you will need to delete local file if such exist (‘temp.tmp’). So working code will look like:

<?php
foreach ($files as $key=>$path) {
...
if (
file_exists('temp.tmp')) {
unlink('temp.tmp');
}
$result = ftp_get($ftpConnId, 'temp.tmp', $path, FTP_BINARY);
...
}
?>

Good luck in scripting :-)

Vitali Simsive
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miki at epoch dot co dot il
11 years ago
If you ran the example and see that it fail after 90sec (timeout).

Then try adding:
<?php
ftp_pasv
($ftp_conn, true);
?>
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corey-holzer at nyc dot rr dot com
20 years ago
The zero size file is not a side effect. When the ftp_get starts the first thing it does is to create the inode/file which it will stream the data too and that is a zero size file with the nname you specified for the local file. When the download fails it leaves the file in place.
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scott dot chu at udngroup dot com
8 years ago
I'd suggest use ftp_fget() instead of ftp_get() since the latter only return TRUE or FALSE and there's no obvious way to get the cause of failure.

Using ftp_fget, you have to pass a file handle as local file, so you have to do fopen() first. By way of this, you can find 'Permission Denied' problem when call fopen(). If you use ftp_get(), there's no way to find this error cause.

In my case, I run httpd using 'nobody' and I create ftp local folder using 'haha'. It tooks me long time to find the 'Permission Denied' problem at that time since I use ftp_get() then.
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