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Reputation: 1200

Open & Write to Password Protected Directory

I have a password protected directory I want to write to a text file in PHP. cURL is probably what it'll take, but I'm trying fopen right now:

$filename = "example.txt"; 
$file     = "https://user:[email protected]/pass-protected-folder/" . $filename;

$fh = fopen( $file, 'w' );
fwrite( $fh, "Testing 1, 2, 3.." );
fclose( $fh );

Which does not work; no errors but no file gets written either.

What should I do to make fopen work and/or if cURL is a better option?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1693

Answers (1)

pce
pce

Reputation: 5921

The HTTP and HTTPS Protocol won't let you create Files, there are PUT and DELETE but they rely on an Implementation.

The Password Protection is only for Requests through the Webserver.

If the File is located on the same server, you could use the realtive or absolute path to the file.

For Files on an external Server you could use ssh or scp for that (since, i guess apache, wont let you write over http/s) : libssh extension (php.net/manual/en/ref.ssh2.php) or in php `phpseclib' ( phpseclib.sourceforge.net ). If you don't mind security, you could also use FTP.

libssh Example:

$connection = ssh2_connect($myssh['host'], $myssh['port']);
ssh2_auth_password(
  $connection,
  $myssh['username'],
  $myssh['password']
);
$localfile = $myssh['localpath'].$file;
$remotefile = $myssh['remotepath'].$file;
ssh2_scp_send(
  $connection,
  $localfile,
  $remotefile, 0644
);

Upvotes: 1

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