I did a script, which has to load a file from a ftp-server then parses it. The code relies on tempname to store the temporarily store the ftp-file. On my developement server (with php 5.3.10), this works flawlessly, however on the client machine (with php 5.2.17) it does not and gives me:
Warning: ftp_rawlist() [function.ftp-rawlist]: Unable to create temporary file. Check permissions in temporary files directory.
Can someone give me a clue what i could do? (I am a little weak on the possibiities of php)
I used this code:
define ("LOCALFILE",tempnam('/tmp', 'data-')); define ("USER","myusername"); define ("PASS","mypassword"); define('SERVER', "ftpserver.com"); define ("DIR","/path/"); function getFTPFile(){ // connect if(!($conn_id = @ftp_connect(SERVER))){ Error::throwOne("Could not connect to ".SERVER); }; // login if(!($login_result = @ftp_login($conn_id, USER, PASS))){ Error::throwOne("LOGIN INCORRECT! user:".USER." pass:".PASS); }; // try to change the directory to somedir if (!ftp_chdir($conn_id, DIR)) { Error::throwOne("Couldn't change directoryn"); }; if(!($a = ftp_rawlist($conn_id, '-1t'))){ Error::throwOne("Couldn't get ftp_rawlistn"); }; $server_file=($a[0]); if (!ftp_get($conn_id, LOCALFILE, $server_file, FTP_BINARY)) { Error::throwOne("Couldn't get filen"); }; ftp_close($conn_id); };
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Answer
I found the issue. Since my hoster does not like the /tmp directory ( who would blame them ) i need to first set putenv(‘TMPDIR=/the tmp-dir my provider gave me’); which then works with tempname