Ftp Upload File to Distant Server with Curl and PHP Uploads a Blank File

FTP upload file to distant server with CURL and PHP uploads a blank file

After 2 days of banging my head against the keyboard.. finally i did it..
Here is how:

<?php

    if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) {
 if (!empty($_FILES['upload']['name'])) {
    $ch = curl_init();
    $localfile = $_FILES['upload']['tmp_name'];
    $fp = fopen($localfile, 'r');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'ftp://domain.com/'.$_FILES['upload']['name']);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "user:pass");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fp);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize($localfile));
    curl_exec ($ch);
    $error_no = curl_errno($ch);
    curl_close ($ch);
        if ($error_no == 0) {
            $error = 'File uploaded succesfully.';
        } else {
            $error = 'File upload error.';
        }
 } else {
        $error = 'Please select a file.';
 }
}
  echo $error;  
?> 

Here is the source, from where i found the solution

CURL uploads blank file by FTP

Line 3, right now it says:

$localfile = $_FILES['upload']['tmp_name'];

Change it to:

$localfile = $_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'];

Uploading via CURL - how can I change the destination file name?

get value for mime file using this code

<?php
    function getmimefile($file){
        $finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE);
        $ftype = finfo_file($finfo,$file);
        finfo_close($finfo);
        return $ftype;
    }

so you can handle mimefile like this

$post["File1"] = new CurlFile($local_path, getmimefile($local_path), $actual_filename);

Getting a file from my local server and uploading it to a remote server using php

Try this:

    # Declare Files
    $local_file = "/home/user/public_html/file.php";
    $remote_file = "public_html/remote_file.php";

    # FTP
    $server = "ftp://ftp.yourhost.com/".$remote_file;

    # FTP Credentials
    $ftp_user = "ftp_username";
    $ftp_password = "password";

    # Upload File
    $ch = curl_init();
    $ftp_file = fopen($local_file, 'r');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $server);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $ftp_user.":".$ftp_password);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $ftp_file);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, filesize($local_file));
    $result = curl_exec($ch);

You can easily put it in a function if this does what you want.

PHP cURL SFTP Not Working

The solution to this is to check your sub folders when connecting to a third party FTP site.

Using FileZilla, even though I didn't specify a default directory to go to (so I presumed the root), it automatically took me to a sub folder: /ebs_data/[my username]/.

When using cURL I was trying to upload to / (root), where I didn't have permission.

FileZilla = /ebs_data/[my username]/ (where I do have permissions)

cURL = / (root - where I don't have permissions)

...because FileZilla jumped me directly to the sub folder, and I missed it.

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