hello

i wrote this script:

blabla...
echo"
<form enctype=multipart/form-data action=ftp_upload.php method=post>
<input type=file name=users_file>
<input type=hidden name=stream value=".$ftp_stream.">
<input type=submit value=\"Upload File\">
</form>";
...

the ftp_upload.php contains this:

...
if(!ftp_put($stream,$users_file,$users_file,FTP_BINARY))
{
echo "upload failed";
}
...

the problem is, that I get an erro message which says:

Warning: Unable to find ftpbuf 1 in e:\http_server\inv\test\ftp_upload.php on line ...

but why cant I access the ftp stream??? I am sure, the stream was opened correctly because I could read from the stream. (Printed a directory listing). Are ftp streams closed after beig read once?

pls help me!

thanks

raven

this is just a guess, I've used ftp in PHP but I've never tried to share the stream, but...

It looks like you're trying to pass a file descriptor ($ftp_stream or whatever) between to connections, ie. to processes.

every new connection has to reopen the ftp stream, I believe, as that file descriptor for the stream in the last connection is no longer valid.

If you want to connection pool ftp streams, you would need an application server I'm guessing. eg. JSP application server like Apache tomcat http://jakarta.apache.org/ . An application server lets you easily keep variables in "application scope", so that multiple instances ( connection ) can access pooled resources.

You might also want to cross post to the php-general news-group :

http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php