FTP Learning in PHP (ii)

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Melonfire
November 07, 2000
Logged on to the FTP server, PHP provides functions that can get information about systems and files and directories.

Ftp_pwd ()
If you want to know your current directory, you need to use this function.
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Get Current Location
$here = Ftp_pwd ($conn);

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What if you need to know what system is running on the server side?
Ftp_systype () provides you with this information.
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Get system Type
$server _os = Ftp_systype ($conn);

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On the passive mode (PASV) switch, PHP also provides such a function, it can turn on or off PASV (1 means open)
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Turn PASV on
FTP_PASV ($conn, 1);

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Now that you know where you are and who is with you, now we're going to go around the table of contents--The Ftp_chdir () function, which takes a directory name as an argument.
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Change directory to "Public_html"
Ftp_chdir ($conn, "public_html");

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If you want to go back to the directory (parent directory) where you just were,