php ftp uploading question

[Kliot]

I'm new to php and am wondering if it is possible to write a php program that will upload files from my windows machine to my hosted website.

Ideally I would like to do this with ftp, I have no problem writing a program that uses a html form with file uploading and then using ftp_put to place the file. My problem is I can't find a way to do this without using the html form ideally I would like to do something like:

$destination_file = "public_html/fileToUpload"; //directory on web server
$source_file = "c:\\fileToUpload"; // file on my local computer

$upload = ftp_put($conn_id, $destination_file, $source_file, FTP_ASCII);

Is this possible?

Thanks in advane
Perrin

 

[genoa]

You can use the same code as a form would use. Simply define all the required variables that would be submitted through the form before the code is executed.

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[Kliot]

I'm not really sure how to go about that. It appears to me that the form's file function uses the browser's upload capability to upload a temporary file that the ftp server then can use as a local file. I would like to find a way to do that with php code or better yet I would like to have the ftp server use my computer as a local resource.

Perrin

 

[jimoblak]

Are you simply trying to mirror everything on your PC's folder to the public FTP server? Have you searched for freeware that monitors a PC folder and uploads the contents to an FTP location?

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[Kliot]

tickelfish,

Yes, I can definitly do this with ftp software I'm just wondering if I can do it with php. Php would give me the advantage of not having to have ftp software installed on the local machine. I also have some files that I upload then run cgi scripts on and it would be nice if I could do both steps with one php script.

Perrin