SFTP from within PHP

Question

I\'m in the process of building an web app that will, besides other things, need to connect to a FTP server to download or upload files. The application is written in PHP an

Answer 1

The problem with Igor's recommendation is that it, among other things, makes for much less portable code (libssh2 isn't installed on very many hosts), it has a far more intuitive OOP-based API and RSA authentication actually makes sense (libssh2 requires you store the public key and the private key separately on the file system; the fact that they have to be separately provided is silly since most private key formats include the public key within them).

phpseclib is also faster:

http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/make_ssh_connections_with_php/#comment_3759