Question

I need to upload a file to my FTP server using cURL. let me explain better.

I have this URL http://www.server.com/file.zip and I need to copy the “file.zip” to a FTP server without having to download it to my PC.

I have seen some examples that use cURL to upload files but are they are my hard drive and I need is upload from a URL.

Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

Since you don’t know if you’re saving it properly, just use the stream.

<?php

// open some file for reading
$file = 'http://server.com/file.zip';
$fp = fopen($file, 'r');

// 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 upload $file
if (ftp_fput($conn_id, $file, $fp, FTP_ASCII)) {
    echo "Successfully uploaded $file\n";
} else {
    echo "There was a problem while uploading $file\n";
}

// close the connection and the file handler
ftp_close($conn_id);
fclose($fp);

?>

By the way, I’m just using PHP Manual examples for these answers. You should, too. Look here.