Thanks for the insight.
My other idea was to tar the whole thing, ftp it, and try to untar at
the other end. Problem is that I don't have that kind of access there.
Guess I'll have to play a bit to see how far I can get!
steve
On Mar 7, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Sheila Fenelon wrote:
The commandline ftp doesn't take parameters in that form. Here's
the man page http://nersp.cns.ufl.edu/~dicke3/nerspcs/ftp.html
Shell scripts I've seen to automate ftp looks like this
ftp -i -v -n hostname <<END_FTP
user username userpass
binary
lcd /path_to_download_dir
cd /path_to_save_dir
get filename
bye
END_FTP
Transferring multiple files is more involved.
Using exec in PHP would required some tricks to keep it from
waiting for the command to finish. If it sits and waits then you're
back to the timeout issue. On the other hand if you put it in a
loop and let it spawn an ftp session for every file at once you
quickly consume all the resources on the machine, and your host
gets mad.
Sheila
http://www.shefen.com
steve miller wrote:
Kind of makes sense.
I have run scripts from crons before, so that part I know how to do.
The timeout issue was the problem, and it might be the server
config; I'm not sure.
What I was thinking was that I could run an exec within php that
executes the ftp statement like on a command line, but I don't
know the correct syntax.
Something like:
exec (" ftp ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path path/to/files/*.* ")
Would this work?
On Mar 7, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Sheila Fenelon wrote:
You could start by running the PHP script via cron. If the
timeout you got was from the web server's configuration then it
might not timeout when run from cron.
To run a PHP script from cron you first give the path to php
then the path to the script, so depending on your server setup,
it would look *something* like this
/usr/local/bin/php /full_path_to_ftp_script/the_script.php
If it still times out you could try wrapping the call to the php
script in a shell script. The shell script would need to
generate or read a list of the files to be ftp'd and pass them
to the php script. The php script would need to read the input,
handle just one file and then exit.
Hope the makes sense,
Sheila
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