How To Connect FTP Server Using PHP

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In this post I will show you how to connect FTP server using PHP.

PHP provide inbuilt function to connect ftp server using ftp_connect() function. Using ftp connection you can transferring files through FTP easily. Here i will show you how we can connect to ftp server and ftp login in PHP.

The ftp_connect() function opens an FTP connection to the specified host. When connection is open, you can run FTP functions against the server.

Syntax :

ftp_connect(host, port, timeout);

Parameter Details :

• host : This is Required parameter for ftp connection and Host Can be domain address or IP address.
• port : This is Optional parameter for ftp connection, it specifies the port of the FTP server and default port is 21.
• timeout : This is Optional parameter for ftp connection,it specifies timeout for all subsequent network operations and default timeout is 90 seconds.

Example :

<?php
// connect to FTP server
$ftp_server = "ftp.example.com";
$ftp_conn = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Could not connect to $ftp_server");
// login to FTP server
$login = ftp_login($ftp_conn, $ftp_username, $ftp_userpass);
// close ftp connection
ftp_close($ftp_conn);
?>

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