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Simple FTP Upload

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Simple example to upload a file to an FTP server.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$ftp = chilkat::CkFtp2->new();

$ftp->put_Hostname("ftp.example.com");
$ftp->put_Username("login");
$ftp->put_Password("password");

# Connect and login to the FTP server.
$success = $ftp->Connect();
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Change to the remote directory where the file will be uploaded.
$success = $ftp->ChangeRemoteDir("junk");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Upload a file.
$localPath = "c:/temp/hamlet.xml";
$remoteFilename = "hamlet.xml";

$success = $ftp->PutFile($localPath,$remoteFilename);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $ftp->Disconnect();

print "File Uploaded!" . "\r\n";