ftp_systype does NOT appear to be a reliable way to detect whether it is connected, as at least for a local network connection I have here to a Windows ftp server, it can succeed without a working connection (is it cached?). Don't know if this is specific to our ftp server - perhaps it doesn't behave well when it times out links.
ftp_systype
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
ftp_systype — Retourne un identifiant de type de serveur FTP
Description
string ftp_systype
( resource $ftp_stream
)
ftp_systype() retourne le type de serveur FTP distant.
Liste de paramètres
- ftp_stream
-
L'identifiant du lien de connexion FTP.
Valeurs de retour
Retourne le type de serveur distant ou FALSE si une erreur survient.
Exemples
Exemple #1 Exemple avec ftp_systype()
<?php
// Connexion ftp
$ftp = ftp_connect('ftp.example.com');
ftp_login($ftp, 'user', 'password');
// Récupération du type de serveur
if ($type = ftp_systype($ftp)) {
echo "Example.com est exécuté par $type\n";
} else {
echo "Impossible de récupérer le type du serveur";
}
?>
L'exemple ci-dessus va afficher quelque chose de similaire à :
Example.com est exécuté par UNIX
jgbreezer at NOSPAM dot gmail dot com
07-Apr-2008 04:21
Buckwheat469 at hotmail dot com
26-Jul-2006 09:41
ftp_systype can be a good way of checking the state of a connection, since PHP doesn't have a better system to check the state of an ftp connection (is_connected would be nice).
if (!($type = ftp_systype($conn_id))) {
echo "FTP connection has failed! Trying again.\n";
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user, $ftp_pass);
}
