PHP Extension

FTP Download Text File to a Stream

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Demonstrates how to FTP download a text file to a Chilkat stream.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.67 or greater.

PHP Extension

<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

// This example assumes the Chilkat FTP2 API to have been previously unlocked.
// See FTP2 Unlock Sample for sample code.

$ftp = new CkFtp2();

$ftp->put_Hostname('www.my-ftp-server.com');
$ftp->put_Username('mFtpLogin');
$ftp->put_Password('myFtpPassword');
$ftp->put_AuthTls(true);
$ftp->put_Passive(true);

// Connect and login to the FTP server using TLS.
$success = $ftp->Connect();
if ($success != true) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

$streamObj = new CkStream();

// Indicate the charset of the incoming data.
$streamObj->put_StringCharset('utf-8');

// Create a task to do the FTP download.
// t is a CkTask
$t = $ftp->GetFileToStreamAsync('lines.txt',$streamObj);
if ($ftp->get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Start the task in a background thread.
$t->Run();

// Read the incoming text data using any of the streamObj Read methods.
// This example will read line-by-line.

while ($streamObj->get_EndOfStream() != true) {
    $line = $streamObj->readToCRLF();
    if ($streamObj->get_LastMethodSuccess() == true) {
        print $line . "\n";
    }

}

print 'Success.' . "\n";

?>