Expand my Community achievements bar.

Dive into Adobe Summit 2024! Explore curated list of AEM sessions & labs, register, connect with experts, ask questions, engage, and share insights. Don't miss the excitement.

Flex FTP and PHP

Avatar

Level 1
Hi Everyone,



As you can see by the title, I'm trying to use Flex to upload
a file, followed by having PHP FTP the file to the server.



I have been successful at having PHP move the file once Flex
uploads it, but that is using http and the client wants this to be
strictly ftp:



Here's the Flex code:

[code]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<mx:Application xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="absolute" backgroundAlpha="0.0" backgroundColor="0x000000"
backgroundGradientColors="[#000000, #000000]" borderThickness="0"
height="220" width="616" paddingTop="0" paddingBottom="0"
paddingLeft="0" paddingRight="0" verticalAlign="top">

<fab:FABridge bridgeName="fab" id="fab"
xmlns:fab="bridge.*" />

<mx:Script>

<![CDATA[

import flash.net.URLRequest;

import flash.net.URLLoader;



private var file:FileReference = new FileReference();

private function init():void

{

file.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, selectHandler);

}



private function selectHandler(event:Event):void

{



}



private function browse(event:MouseEvent):void

{

var filefilter:FileFilter = new FileFilter("Video Files",
"*.mov;*.m2v;*.mp4;*.m4v;*.wmv;*.avi;*.swf;");

file.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, fileSelected);

file.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, uploadComplete);

file.addEventListener(DataEvent.UPLOAD_COMPLETE_DATA,
uploadDataComplete);

file.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, handleError);

file.browse([filefilter]);

}



public function handleError(event:IOErrorEvent):void

{

status_txt.text = 'ERROR: ' + event.text + '\n';

}

public function fileSelected(event:Event):void

{

if (event.currentTarget.size<15800000)

{

_progressbar.visible=true;

file = FileReference(event.target);

txt_file.text = file.name;

status_txt.text = file.name + ' is uploading. \n';

file.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS,
progressHandler);

var Form:URLVariables = new URLVariables();

var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest();

Form.txt_file = txt_file.text;

request.data = Form;

request.url = 'ftp_test3.php';

file.upload(request);



}

else

{

mx.controls.Alert.show('Max File Size is: 15MB','File Too
Large',4,null).clipContent

}

}



public function uploadComplete(event:Event):void

{

status_txt.text += 'Upload complete' + '\n';

_progressbar.label = '';

_progressbar.visible=false;

}



private function progressbarInit():void

{

_progressbar.visible=false;

}



private function progressHandler(event:ProgressEvent):void

{

_progressbar.setProgress(50,100);

_progressbar.label = 'Uploading ' +
Math.round(event.bytesLoaded / 1024) + ' kb of ' +
Math.round(event.bytesTotal / 1024) + ' kb ' ;

}



public function uploadDataComplete(event:DataEvent):void

{

// used to send message via Javascript to let me know that
it actually completed

ExternalInterface.call('sendRequestPost_video', '3');

}

]]>

</mx:Script>





<mx:Panel backgroundColor="0x000000" color="0xFFFFFF"
borderThickness="0" paddingTop="0" paddingBottom="0"
paddingLeft="0" paddingRight="0" height="220" width="614">

<mx:Form>

<mx:TextInput id='txt_file' horizontalCenter='0' top='0'
color="0x000000" width="100" />

<mx:Button id="browse_button" label="Upload Video"
click="browse(event);" width="100" />

<mx:ProgressBar id='_progressbar' labelPlacement='center'
trackHeight='15' left='-2' right='2' top='60' height='20'
color="0x000000" width="300" />

</mx:Form>

<mx:Label id="status_txt" color="0xFFFFFF" width="589"
height="50" fontSize="16" />

</mx:Panel>

<mx:HTTPService id="userRequest" url="ftp_test3.php"
method="POST">

<mx:request>

<txt_file>txt_file.text</txt_file>

</mx:request>

</mx:HTTPService>

</mx:Application>

[/code]



And here's the PHP code that moves the file, which is
successful:

[code]

<?php



$upload_dir = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .
dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . '/'."movies/";

$upload_url = "
http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'
. '/';

$message ="";

$temp_name = $_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'];

$file_name = $_FILES['Filedata']['name'];

$file_name = str_replace("\\","",$file_name);

$file_name = str_replace("'","",$file_name);

$file_path = $upload_dir.$file_name;

$result = move_uploaded_file($temp_name, $file_path);

chmod("movies/".$file_name, 0777);

chown("movies/".$file_name, www);

if ($result)

{

$message =
"<result><status>OK</status><message>$file_name
uploaded successfully.</message></result>";

}

else

{

$message =
"<result><status>Error</status><message>Somthing
is wrong with uploading a file.</message></result>";

}

echo $message;

?>

[/code]



The above code works fine, but it's not FTP.



So, I use the same concept but with ftp, which BTW, the below
FTP PHP scripts works on it's own to upload a file via FTP. It
appears as though Flex is not communicating with the PHP file.



[code]

<?php

//-- SMTP Mail Function By Aditya Bhatt

if(isset($_POST['SubmitFile'])){

$myFile = $_FILES['txt_file']['tmp_name']; // This will make
an array out of the file information that was stored.

$myFileName = basename($_FILES['txt_file']['name']);
//Retrieve filename out of file path

$destination_file = $_REQUEST['filepath'].$myFileName;

#"/developers/uploadftp/aditya/".$myFileName; //where you
want to throw the file on the webserver (relative to your login
dir)

// connection settings

$ftp_server = 'someIPnumber'; //address of ftp server.

$ftp_user_name = 'username'; // Username

$ftp_user_pass = 'password'; // Password



$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("<span
style='color:#FF0000'><h2>Couldn't connect to
$ftp_server</h2></span>"); // set up basic connection

#print_r($conn_id);

$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name,
$ftp_user_pass) or die("<span
style='color:#FF0000'><h2>You do not have access to this
ftp server!</h2></span>"); // login with username and
password, or give invalid user message

if ((!$conn_id) || (!$login_result)) { // check connection

echo "<span style='color:#FF0000'><h2>FTP
connection has failed! <br />";

echo "Attempted to connect to $ftp_server for user
$ftp_user_name</h2></span>";

exit;

} else {

// echo "Connected to $ftp_server, for user $ftp_user_name
<br />";

}

$upload = ftp_put($conn_id, $destination_file, $myFile,
FTP_BINARY); // upload the file

if (!$upload) { // check upload status

echo "<span style='color:#FF0000'><h2>FTP upload
of $myFileName has failed!</h2></span> <br />";

} else {

echo "<span style='color:#339900'><h2>Uploading
$myFileName Completed Successfully!</h2></span><br
/><br />";

}

ftp_close($conn_id); // close the FTP stream

}

?>

<html>

<head></head>

<body>

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="<?php echo
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="POST" id="myForm">

Please choose a file: <input name="txt_file" type="file"
id="txt_file" tabindex="1" size="35"
onChange="txt_fileName.value=txt_file.value"
/><br><br>

<input name="txt_fileName" type="hidden"
id="txt_fileName" tabindex="99" size="1" />



<input type="submit" name="SubmitFile" value="Upload
File" accesskey="ENTER" tabindex="2" />

</form>

</body>

</html>

[/code]



THanks in advance and if there are any articles or tutorials
for this concept, let me know -- I have read the chapter in the
source book, but it sends the uploaded file to a cfm page and I
need it to work with PHP.
1 Reply

Avatar

Level 1
I found the issue and corrected it:

I had to remove the "if the form was submitted conditional"

[code]

if(isset($_POST['SubmitFile'])){

[/code]

Because the php form would never be submitted via Flex



and I changed the following code from txt_file to Filedata

[code]

$myFile = $_FILES['txt_file']['tmp_name



$myFile = $_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name']; // This will make
an array out of the file information that was stored.

// $file = $myFile['tmp_name']; //Converts the array into a
new string containing the path name on the server where your file
is.



$myFileName = basename($_FILES['Filedata']['name']);
//Retrieve filename out of file path

[/code]



THe only thing that I have to figure out now, is that the
files are being uploaded to the root directory of the user logging
in, but other than that, it works :-)