The connection to the ftp may need to be put into passive mode to transfer any files, and even the directory listings... try that and see if the problem is fixed... this is especially true on machines accessing the internet through NAT (network access translation) network firewalls/servers
-----Original Message----- From: Philip Hallstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 4:44 PM To: Ian Wayne Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Re: Problems with ftp_get I would double check the values of $newName and $oldName and make sure that you have read permission on the one and write permission on the other... seems like the error should tell you what file it's having problems with, but maybe not. -philip On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Ian Wayne wrote: > I'm getting an unhelpful error message from my ftp script. It says "Warning, > error opening file..." The code in question runs like this. > > $conn = ftp_connect("ftp.mysite.com"); > ftp_login($conn,"user","pass"); > ftp_get($conn, $newName, $oldName , FTP_BINARY); > > I can't see what's causing the error. Any help greatly appreciated as my > forehead is getting sore from all the banging it's doing on my desktop (the > literal one). > > Also, what I want to do is allow users to download a large movie (70-90MB) > rather than be forced to watch it in the browser window. I figured that > making an ftp link would be the best way to do this, but are there other > ways? Thanks. Ian. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
