ftp_nb_get

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)

ftp_nb_getRetrieves a file from the FTP server and writes it to a local file (non-blocking)

Description

int ftp_nb_get ( resource $ftp_stream , string $local_file , string $remote_file , int $mode [, int $resumepos = 0 ] )

ftp_nb_get() retrieves a remote file from the FTP server, and saves it into a local file.

The difference between this function and ftp_get() is that this function retrieves the file asynchronously, so your program can perform other operations while the file is being downloaded.

Parameters

ftp_stream

The link identifier of the FTP connection.

local_file

The local file path (will be overwritten if the file already exists).

remote_file

The remote file path.

mode

The transfer mode. Must be either FTP_ASCII or FTP_BINARY.

resumepos

The position in the remote file to start downloading from.

Return Values

Returns FTP_FAILED or FTP_FINISHED or FTP_MOREDATA.

Examples

Example #1 ftp_nb_get() example

<?php

// Initate the download
$ret ftp_nb_get($my_connection"test""README"FTP_BINARY);
while (
$ret == FTP_MOREDATA) {
   
   
// Do whatever you want
   
echo ".";

   
// Continue downloading...
   
$ret ftp_nb_continue($my_connection);
}
if (
$ret != FTP_FINISHED) {
   echo 
"There was an error downloading the file...";
   exit(
1);
}
?>

Example #2 Resuming a download with ftp_nb_get()

<?php

// Initate 
$ret ftp_nb_get($my_connection"test""README"FTP_BINARY
                      
filesize("test"));
// OR: $ret = ftp_nb_get($my_connection, "test", "README", 
//                           FTP_BINARY, FTP_AUTORESUME);
while ($ret == FTP_MOREDATA) {
   
   
// Do whatever you want
   
echo ".";

   
// Continue downloading...
   
$ret ftp_nb_continue($my_connection);
}
if (
$ret != FTP_FINISHED) {
   echo 
"There was an error downloading the file...";
   exit(
1);
}
?>

Example #3 Resuming a download at position 100 to a new file with ftp_nb_get()

<?php

// Disable Autoseek
ftp_set_option($my_connectionFTP_AUTOSEEKfalse);

// Initiate
$ret ftp_nb_get($my_connection"newfile""README"FTP_BINARY100);
while (
$ret == FTP_MOREDATA) {

   
/* ... */
   
   // Continue downloading...
   
$ret ftp_nb_continue($my_connection);
}
?>

In the example above, newfile is 100 bytes smaller than README on the FTP server because we started reading at offset 100. If we didn't disable FTP_AUTOSEEK, the first 100 bytes of newfile would be '\0'.

See Also

  • ftp_nb_fget() - Retrieves a file from the FTP server and writes it to an open file (non-blocking)
  • ftp_nb_continue() - Continues retrieving/sending a file (non-blocking)
  • ftp_fget() - Downloads a file from the FTP server and saves to an open file
  • ftp_get() - Downloads a file from the FTP server

Коментарии

Note that you may have to keep calling ftp_nb_continue in order to complete the download. For example, if you do this:

<?php
ftp_nb_get
($conn,$localfile,$remotefile,FTP_BINARY)
//do some LONG time work
while(ftp_nb_continue($conn)!=FTP_FINISHED){}
?>

Your local file may only contains a few kilobytes and the later ftp_nb_continue will keep raising warning of no more data (due to connection time out, I guess).

So you may want to do this instead:

<?php
$dl
=ftp_nb_get($conn,$localfile,$remotefile,FTP_BINARY)
//part of long time work
if(ftp_nb_continue($conn)==FTP_MOREDATA) {}
//part of long time work
if(ftp_nb_continue($conn)==FTP_MOREDATA) {}
//continue to do this until you finish the long time work
while(ftp_nb_continue($conn)==FTP_MOREDATA){}
?>

This happened on my Windows XP + PHP 5.3.8 under CLI. Hope this helps someone.
2012-01-04 22:24:36
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