I need to automate some file transfers between two sites. I just tried the script below to see if I could connect and got nothing. Then I found out that my hosting (ATT/Yahoo) does not support the standard ftp functions of php.

Is there a work around for this? are there HTTP functions I can use?

PHP Code:

echo"testing the ftp connection";
$ftp_server = "ftp.somesite.com";

// set up a connection or die
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Couldn't connect to $ftp_server");
echo"Connected!!! </br>";

$ftp_user="name";
$ftp_pass="password";
// try to login
if (@ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user, $ftp_pass)) {
    echo "Connected as $ftp_user@$ftp_server\n";
} else {
    echo "Couldn't connect as $ftp_user\n";
}

// close the connection
ftp_close($conn_id);
echo"Connection closed!"; 


Thanks folks!

If you cannot send files from A to B try to retrieve these files at B from A.

I only have FTP access to a data directory on the site I need to send files to. I do not have any other access to the destination site than that and cannot upload any type of script to that site. I only have scripting capability and control on my OWN web space.

You may be able to use the FTP wrappers for the file system functions...

http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/wrappers.ftp.php

You can try sockets if they are enabled (I doubt that they are if ftp functions are off), but you definitely cannot login to ftp through http protocol.