Question

I have a script which logs on to a remote server and tries to rename files, using PHP.

The code currently looks something like this example from the php.net website:

if (ftp_rename($conn_id, $old_file, $new_file)) {  echo 'successfully renamed $old_file to $new_file\n'; } else {  echo 'There was a problem while renaming $old_file to $new_file\n'; } 

but … what was the error? Permissions, no such directory, disk full?

How can I get PHP to return the FTP error? Something like this:

echo 'There was a problem while renaming $old_file to $new_file:  the server says $error_message\n'; 

Answer 1

Looking at the FTP API here:

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.ftp-rename.php

There doesn’t seem to be any way to get anything but true or false.

However, you could use ftp_raw to send a raw RENAME command, and then parse the returned message.