Getting “FTP server reports 550 Could not get file size.” when using FTP URL in fopen

Question

I want to read a file which is on a remote ftp server to a variable. I tried reading with address

fopen(\"ftp://user:pass@localhost/filetoread\");


        

Answer 1

The PHP FTP URL wrapper seems to require FTP SIZE command, what your FTP server does not support.

Use the ftp_fget instead:

$conn_id = ftp_connect('hostname');

ftp_login($conn_id, 'username', 'password');
ftp_pasv($conn_id, true);

$h = fopen('php://temp', 'r+');

ftp_fget($conn_id, $h, '/path/to/file', FTP_BINARY, 0);

$fstats = fstat($h);
fseek($h, 0);
$contents = fread($h, $fstats['size']); 

fclose($h);
ftp_close($conn_id);

(add error handling)

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