download a file from an ftp server to your webserver

08 Sep

Posted by aRo` as php

I have several niche price comparison sites where i need to update my productlist on a regular basis. When a merchant delivers his datafeed from his webserver(http://domain.com/feed.csv) you can use php's filecopy function.

Other merchants only offer an option to fetch there datafeed from an FTP server(ie shareasale merchants). This is where the code below offers the perfect solution.

PLAIN TEXT

ASP:

$ftp_server = "ftp.domain.com";
$ftp_user_name = "";
$ftp_user_pass = "";
$local_file = "download.txt"; //local path
$server_file = '/del/todo.txt';//path on ftp server
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
ftp_pasv($conn_id, TRUE);//set passive mode
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {
echo "An error occured while connecting to $ftp_server with user: $ftp_user_name.<br />";
exit;
} else {
echo "Connected to $ftp_server successfully with user: $ftp_user_name.<br />";
}
$download = ftp_get($conn_id, $local_file , $server_file , FTP_ASCII);//the file download
if (!$download) {
echo "An error occured while downloading the file";
} else {
echo "Download completed succesfully";
}
ftp_close($conn_id);