Automatically get zip file via FTP

[nicole86]

Hello, I am new here but I hope you can help me with a problem that I've been stuck with for days.

 

I am trying to populate the content of a website through XML files (zipped) that are located on an FTP server.

 

I managed to get the zip file but I'm not sure if it is the correct way:

 

function ftp_copy($file) {
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_host) or die ("Can't connect");
        $ftp_login= ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user, $ftp_pass) or die ("Can't login");
ftp_pasv($conn_id, true);
        ftp_chdir($conn_id, "/zip_files/");
return ftp_get($conn_id, $file, $file, FTP_BINARY);
}

ftp_copy('1001.zip');

 

After that I will need to extract the zip file. I'm planning to use pclzip library for it and save the contents on a database.

Also this has to happen everyday so I'm thinking about using a cron job, although hourly is also preferable since the XML files could be generated more than once per day.

 

Am I doing it the right way or is there a better solution for this?

 

Any help will me much appreciated! Thanks a lot!

[nicole86]

No one?

[gizmola]

Code looks alright to me. 

 

Alternatively you can use curl, but if your code works, I don't see any reason to change.

 

Don't know why you plan to use pclzip when you can use the http://us3.php.net/zip extension.

 

 

[nicole86]

Thank you very much for your reply and I will use the php zip extension.