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Asked: 2026-06-14T12:29:15+00:00

When someone comes to my website via url: http://domain.com/FILE_ID , PHP would connect to

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When someone comes to my website via url: http://domain.com/FILE_ID, PHP would connect to the ftp server and get FILE_ID and then stream it to client without saving it on the local server. I don’t want to provide my clients with a link to my file on ftp server instead I thought of this.

Does anyone have an idea how I can accomplish this?

I was thinking I could use “ftp_get()” method to get the file from ftp but that requires me to write in on a local server(or am I wrong?). After that use PHP headers to force the download.

Basically any and every piece of information would be useful. Just so I can start walking in the right direction.

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  1. Editorial Team

    What you are after is the Curl library – as it can handle FTP. See this, it has an FTP example.

    Alternatively, if you’ve got a server that has URL bindings for file_get_contents, you can use 

    file_get_contents("ftp://username:password@server/path/to/file.ext");

    to get the contents of a remote file on an FTP server.

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