PHP Extension

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

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

//  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 CkFtp2();

$ftp->put_Hostname('ftp.example.com');
$ftp->put_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->put_Password('myPassword');

$success = $ftp->Connect();
if ($success == false) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

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

//  Upload as UTF-8 without a byte-order mark.
$includeBom = false;
$success = $ftp->PutFileSb($sb,'utf-8',$includeBom,'public_html/inventory.csv');
if ($success == false) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Uploaded text file.' . "\n";

$success = $ftp->Disconnect();
if ($success == false) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}


?>