Question

Is it possible to get access to a file on my FTP doing the following?

<input type="file" name="final" id="final" value="http://www.blah.com.au/artwork/<?=$OrderID?>/<?=$ItemID?>/Final/Final.pdf">;

I know that this specifically didn’t work for me, but is there a way to get the file from the FTP so I can send the information to the next page to use?

Answer 1

There is no way. Why not use PHP to retrieve the file from your FTP or HTTP site yourself? A simple file_get_contents() will suffice (yes, it works for FTP and HTTP links).

$file_contents = file_get_contents('http://www.blah.com.au/artwork/'.$OrderID.'/'.$ItemID.'/Final/Final.pdf');

Edit

Based on new information, you might want to provide a select box with all the files on the ftp folder. You may do so by using ftp_connect(), ftp_login(), ftp_nlist() and ftp_close()

<?php

// 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);

// get contents of the current directory
$contents = ftp_nlist($conn_id, ".");

// output $contents
var_dump($contents);

?>