FTP Commands

[David Priest]

Hi everyone, I am attempting my first FTP with Alpha and I have attached the following code onto a form button:-
cmd=FTP_MakeCommandList("c:\users\david\desktop\transferfolder", "ftp."+trim(domain), trim(username), trim(password), "+" + crlf() + ".shtml")
ftp_script_run("test",cmd,.f.)
I have placed a single test.html file in my specified pc folder and when I click on the button, I get a Dialog box saying "Uploading file test.html to test.html
Transferred: 0 bytes"
The dialog box closes after about a minute but does not transfer the file. I am assuming that is must be almost correct and that it has sucessfully logged into the remote site for me to get the dialog box appear?
Anyone got any ideas why the transfer is not happening please.
David

[Bill Parker]

Re: FTP Commands

Do you have access to the ftp server to be able to watch the commands as they are being received? One place to start is to print out the commands in the cmd variable and tick them off as they are executed by the server.

Bill.

[GGandhi]

Re: FTP Commands

hello

is there an advantage to use your technique over ftp_put_file?

[David Priest]

Re: FTP Commands

Many thanks for the replies. So after a further inspection, I discovered that the file transfer did work, but that the file was uploaded to FTP://mysite.com// and I am wanting it to upload to FTP://mysite.com//public_html
Also, it only uploaded one file, if I add further files to my local folder, it ignores them.
Paths are not a strong point for me, my first thought was to simply add "/public_html" to my ftp address, unfortunately, I am then unable to login with this address and I get an error message.
What I am wanting to achieve is have a desktop folder that may contain any number of different files at any one time. I then want to choose one of my table records that contains domain name, username and password fields, and when I click on my Upload button, for all those local folder files to upload to the relevant ftp address.
David

[GGandhi]

Re: FTP Commands

hello
i am not sure you saw my post.
you can not login using sub-folder names.
but you can define the destination folder
so you need to modify your xbasic code to reflect that.
take a look at
ftp_put_file()
ftp_put_file_multiple()
functions.

[David Priest]

Re: FTP Commands

Thanks Gandhi, yes I did read it and was just reading ftp_put_file_multiple() and trying to work out how to simply list all the folder files, maybe filefind.list_new_files()
Will do a bit of playing about and keep you updated
David

[Stan Mathews]

Re: FTP Commands

I would think you should use Bill's suggestion. Examine the commands generated. If they aren't doing what you want, save them and edit the script generated. Should be as simple as modifying the put commands to include the subfolder in the path.

[GGandhi]

Re: FTP Commands

hello

stan is probably correct and he knows the best.
i just tried adding files manually to a folder and uploaded to a subfolder using
ftp_put_files_multiple(ftp.com, user_name, user_password, list, parent_folder, destination_folder,.f.)
but the list is added manually. i want you to know.

[Stan Mathews]

Re: FTP Commands

I don't know any reason to recommend one way or the other but I've never had any problem with the

FTP_MakeCommandList()

where you can modify the script and add error messages, substitute variables, etc.

[David Priest]

Re: FTP Commands

Sorry but am getting nowhere with this, after clicking on button with FTP_MakeCommandList() on it, all I see in the cmd variable is:-
"connect|ftp.mysite.com o"
When I use an FTP program to see if it was sucessful, I see only one of the file names in the FTP address folder, but it is an empty file with 0 bytes.
Given that I need the files to be in a different folder anyway, the public_html folder, I am struggling to see how this command can possibly be of any use to me.
I do have a non Alphe 5 solution, but was just hoping that I could do it all within Alpha
David

[David Priest]

Re: FTP Commands

I have just found a thread for a similar problem, it was never resolved:-
FTP won't run on customer's computer.
Started by CALocklin, 02-27-2007 08:57 PM
That was over 6 years ago, perhaps someone has some fresh ideas now?
David

[Stan Mathews]

Re: FTP Commands

The ftp script generated should resemble

Connect|ftp.mysite.com
onerror|error|Could not connect
Login|servername/directoryname|password
onerror|error|Could not log in
cd|/
cd|destinationdirectory
cd|destinationsubdirectory
binary
put|completelocalfilenamewithdriveandpath|onlythefilename
Quit

[David Priest]

Re: FTP Commands

Guess that's the problem Stan, and I have no idea why. Can see no firewall problem, must be something very elusive.
David

[Stan Mathews]

Re: FTP Commands

Take the script I posted, modify it to reflect your actual values for directories, passwords, etc.

See if ftp_script_run("test",cmd,.f.) will run that.

Might tell us whether the FTP_MakeCommandList() is choking.

[David Priest]

Re: FTP Commands

Thanks Stan, have done that and I get a "Could not log in" error message.
David