This is a very basic question since I do not properly understand the underlying concepts of the different protocols. Please be indulgent.
I can upload files to my site with FTP using Filezilla. Now I'm developing a user interface for sending data to update a database and files (photos) to be saved in a directory. I send this data with POST (see here). I get the file, but cannot save it to the destination directory performing
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['PhotoToUpload']['tmp_name'],"../../Photos/".$file_name);
I think is because of permissions (currently 755). Since I can currently upload with Filezilla FTP (so I understand I have the permissions to do that),
my question is:
Is bad practice (or conceptually wrong) to take the temp file created after the POST and load it with a FTP code like the following (taken from here)?
<?php
$ftp_server = "myftp.co.uk";
$ftp_user_name = "myusername";
$ftp_user_pass = "mypass";
$destination_file = "../../Photos/";
$source_file = $_FILES['PhotoToUpload']['tmp_name'];
// set up basic connection
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
ftp_pasv($conn_id, true);
// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
// check connection
if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) {
echo "FTP connection has failed!";
echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user $ftp_user_name";
exit;
} else {
echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $ftp_user_name";
}
// upload the file
$upload = ftp_put($conn_id, $destination_file, $source_file, FTP_BINARY);
// check upload status
if (!$upload) {
echo "FTP upload has failed!";
} else {
echo "Uploaded $source_file to $ftp_server as $destination_file";
}
// close the FTP stream
ftp_close($conn_id);
?>
