Question

I’m looking for a script you can auto download file from one server and upload to a database using php and cron jobs. Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

Thanks.

Answer 1

you can use ftp and php that functionality : http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.ftp.php

Prove of Concept

$remoteUrl = "http://balabla/abc.pdf" ; // to remote file
$localTemp = "temp" ; // Temp directory 
$file = 'somefile.txt';
$ftpServer = "";
$ftpUsername = "";
$ftpPassword = "" ;
$serverPath = 'data/upload/'; // this most exist on your the server you are uploading to

//Get Remote FIle 
$localFile = $localTemp . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . basename($remoteUrl);
file_put_contents($fileName, file_get_contents($remoteUrl));


//Upload The File 

$connID = ftp_connect($ftpServer);
$loginID = ftp_login($connID, $ftpUsername, $ftpPassword);

if(!$connID || !$loginID)
{
    die("Can't Connect to FTP");
}

ftp_chdir($connID, $serverPath); //Change Directory 

if (ftp_put($connID, $localFile, basename($localFile), FTP_BINARY )) {
    echo "successfully uploaded $localFile\n";
} else {
    echo "There was a problem while uploading $localFile\n";
}

// close the connection
ftp_close($connID);

I hope it helps