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Quote and SendCommand

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Demonstrate the Quote and SendCommand methods.

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PHP ActiveX
<?php

$success = 0;

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

$ftp = new COM("Chilkat.Ftp2");

$ftp->Hostname = 'ftp.example.com';
$ftp->Username = 'login';
$ftp->Password = 'password';

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

// Tell the FTP object to keep an in-memory session log
// so we can see the commands sent to the server,
// and the responses received back.
$ftp->KeepSessionLog = 1;

// Change the current remote directory via the Quote method:
$success = $ftp->Quote('CWD junk');
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Move back up 
// In this case, ChangeRemoteDir sends "CWD .." to the FTP server.
$success = $ftp->ChangeRemoteDir('..');
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Do the same via the SendCommand method where the
// raw FTP server response is returned:
$serverResponse = $ftp->sendCommand('CWD junk');
if ($ftp->LastMethodSuccess != 1) {
    print $ftp->LastErrorText . "\n";
}
else {
    print $serverResponse . "\n";
}

$success = $ftp->Disconnect();

print 'Session Log:' . "\n";
print $ftp->SessionLog . "\n";

?>