ssh2_sftp

Initialize SFTP subsystem

Description

resource ssh2_sftp ( resource $session )

Request the SFTP subsystem from an already connected SSH2 server.

Parameters

session

An SSH connection link identifier, obtained from a call to ssh2_connect.

Return Values

This method returns an SSH2 SFTP resource for use with all other ssh2_sftp_*() methods and the ssh2.sftp:// fopen wrapper.

Examples

Example #1 Opening a file via SFTP

<?php
$connection 
ssh2_connect('shell.example.com'22);
ssh2_auth_password($connection'username''password');

$sftp ssh2_sftp($connection);

$stream fopen("ssh2.sftp://$sftp/path/to/file"'r');
?>

See Also

  • ssh2_scp_recv
  • ssh2_scp_send