ftp_fget

Description

ftp_fget() retrieves remote_file from the FTP server, and writes it to the given file pointer.

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Return Values

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Examples

Example 1. ftp_fget() example <?php // path to remote file $remote_file = 'somefile.txt'; $local_file = 'localfile.txt'; // open some file to write to $handle = fopen($local_file, 'w'); // 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 $remote_file and save it to $handle if (ftp_fget($conn_id, $handle, $remote_file, FTP_ASCII, 0)) { echo "successfully written to $local_file\n"; } else { echo "There was a problem while downloading $remote_file to $local_file\n"; } // close the connection and the file handler ftp_close($conn_id); fclose($handle); ?>

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