Php script to download files from ftp

I am using the following format in php code to download files from ftp server. Sitansu Sitansu 2 2 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. You usually get error when you're not authorized. Have you checked that your username and password is correct?

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I tried to ftp a 7mb file today off my webserver. I copied this example directly and it told me. Port command successful "there was a problem" I thought it was because of the size. But I guessed it might be cause of my firewall. Hope this helps someone. Don't want to use an intermediate file?

It takes a little work to emulate one, but it's doable. Here's a quick function that figures out the correct mode to use based on a file's extension. If you ran the example and see that it fail after 90sec timeout. Note that PHP still defaults to FTP active mode by default, which is almost never used anymore since the creation of firewalls. So it doesn't work for files larger than that size.