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Hi there,

I've downloaded the last version of Xampp and the function ftp_ssl_connect() does not work either in PHP4 or PHP5.

I read that it's something related to the fact the binary wasn't compiled with SSL support... But... Does anyone has the binary compiled so I can use it?

Or any other solution?

Or any other solution?

Don't use the ftp extension. Just use the normal filesystem/directory functions.

Wiedmann wrote:

Or any other solution?

Don't use the ftp extension. Just use the normal filesystem/directory functions.

How can I use the normal "filesystem/directory" functions to login to a remote FTP (requires SSL) and list it's contents? I can't... Or... Can I?

How would you do this on your local filesystem?

Wiedmann wrote:How would you do this on your local filesystem?

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//List files in a directory
   function dirList ($directory) {       
       // create an array to hold directory list
       $results = array();
       // create a handler for the directory
       $handler = opendir($directory);
       // keep going until all files in directory have been read
       while ($file = readdir($handler)) {
           // if $file isn't this directory or its parent,
           // add it to the results array
           if ($file != '.' && $file != '..')
               $results[] = $file;
       }
       // tidy up: close the handler
       closedir($handler);
       sort($results);
       //folders first
       foreach($results as $temp) {
          if (is_dir($directory."/".$temp)) {
             $files[]=$temp;
          }   
       }
       //files right after folders...
       foreach($results as $temp) {
          if (!is_dir($directory."/".$temp)) {
             $files[]=$temp;
          }   
       }                   
       // done!           
       return $files;               
   }

print_r(dirList('/path/to/the/folder/name'));


What all is a valid value for the first opendir() parameter?

Wiedmann wrote:What all is a valid value for the first opendir() parameter?

In the opendir I use a string... with the directory path.

with the directory path.

That is one valid value.

I think you should read the PHP manual about opendir(), other filesystem function and stream wrappers?

The problem is the same... No OpenSSL, no SSL on FTP!

I can use scandir() like this:

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print_r(scandir('ftp://user:pass@server:port/'));

and it works.

But not like this:

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print_r(scandir('ftps://user:pass@server:port/'));

And the server I need to connect to requires SSL, so the problem is the same... When I can get OpenSSL to work I'll be able to use both methods: FTP or Filesystem functions.

Well, there is some problem (bug?) in the ftps wrapper from PHP. (I must ask the PHP developers what happens.)

The main issue is... Does anyone is able to use the ftp_ssl_connect() function? If so, what's needed to be done to achieve this?

All of the sources I found says that you should compile from the source, is there anybody out there who had worked the ftp_ssl_connect before and how?