How to get the FTP error when using PHP

Question

I have a script which logs on to a remote server and tries to rename files, using PHP.

The code currently looks something like this example from the php.net website:

if (ftp_rename($conn_id, $old_file, $new_file)) {
 echo "successfully renamed $old_file to $new_file\n";
} else {
 echo "There was a problem while renaming $old_file to $new_file\n";
}

but ... what was the error? Permissions, no such directory, disk full?

How can I get PHP to return the FTP error? Something like this:

echo "There was a problem while renaming $old_file to $new_file: 
the server says $error_message\n";

Dharman · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-20 20:08:32Z

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You could use error_get_last() if return value is false.

edited Jun 20, 2019 at 20:08

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answered Jan 13, 2012 at 8:44

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Tyler Collier Over a year ago

This is always null for me. My problem is ftp_put, not ftp_rename, so I'm not sure it's fully relevant to the OP. The fix for me was to call ftp_pasv before ftp_put. I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 with php 5.5.9.

jsherk · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-20 19:38:21Z

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I'm doing something like:

$trackErrors = ini_get('track_errors');
ini_set('track_errors', 1);
if (!@ftp_put($my_ftp_conn_id, $tmpRemoteFileName, $localFileName, FTP_BINARY)) {
   // error message is now in $php_errormsg
   $msg = $php_errormsg;
   ini_set('track_errors', $trackErrors);
   throw new Exception($msg);
}
ini_set('track_errors', $trackErrors);

EDIT:

Note that $php_errormsg is deprecated as of PHP 7.

Use error_get_last() instead.

See answer by @Sascha Schmidt

edited Jun 20, 2019 at 19:38

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answered Oct 16, 2012 at 8:29

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FlySwat · Accepted Answer · 2008-11-11 04:39:47Z

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Looking at the FTP API here:

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.ftp-rename.php

There doesn't seem to be any way to get anything but true or false.

However, you could use ftp_raw to send a raw RENAME command, and then parse the returned message.

answered Nov 11, 2008 at 4:39

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jsherk · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-21 21:30:06Z

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Based on @Sascha Schmidt answer, you could do something like this:

if (ftp_rename($conn_id, $old_file, $new_file)) {
 echo "successfully renamed $old_file to $new_file\n";
} else {
 echo "There was a problem while renaming $old_file to $new_file\n";
 print_r( error_get_last() ); // ADDED THIS LINE
}

print_r will display the contents of the error_get_last() array so you can pinpoint the error.

answered Jun 21, 2019 at 21:30

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