PHP

Upload Text to an FTP Server (StringBuilder)

Demonstrates the Chilkat Ftp2.PutFileSb method, which encodes the text in a StringBuilder and uploads it to a remote path. The arguments are the StringBuilder, the charset, whether to include a byte-order mark, and the remote file path.

Background: The text-oriented upload: assemble a document — CSV, config, JSON — in a StringBuilder and the method handles encoding as it writes. The charset governs the bytes actually stored, and the byte-order-mark flag is useful when a consuming Windows application expects a BOM.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\Ftp2;
use Chilkat2\StringBuilder;

// Demonstrates the Ftp2.PutFileSb method, which encodes the text in a StringBuilder and uploads
// it to a remote path.  The 1st argument is the StringBuilder, the 2nd is the charset, the 3rd
// selects whether a byte-order mark is included, and the 4th is the remote file path.

$ftp = new Ftp2();

$ftp->Hostname = 'ftp.example.com';
$ftp->Username = 'myFtpLogin';

// Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
// from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
$ftp->Password = 'myPassword';

try {
    $ftp->Connect();

    // Build the text to upload.
    $sb = new StringBuilder();
    $sb->Append("name,quantity\n");
    $sb->Append("widgets,42\n");

    // Upload as UTF-8 without a byte-order mark.
    $includeBom = false;
    $ftp->PutFileSb($sb, 'utf-8', $includeBom, 'public_html/inventory.csv');
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

echo "Uploaded text file.\n";

try {
    $ftp->Disconnect();
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}