SFTP and Bluehost

PHP

SFTP is compiled into PHP on your Bluehost/Hostmonster Account to use read on.

Ripped from http://us3.php.net/ftp-ssl-connect

ftp_ssl_connect — Opens an Secure SSL-FTP connection

Description

resource

  ftp_ssl_connect ( string $host [, int $port [, int $timeout ]] )

ftp_ssl_connect() opens a SSL-FTP connection to the specified host .

Note for non BH/HM visitors: Why this function may not exist ftp_ssl_connect() is only available if OpenSSL support is enabled into your version of PHP. If it's undefined and you've compiled FTP support then this is why. For Windows you must compile your own PHP binaries to support this function.

Parameters

host The FTP server address. This parameter shouldn't have any trailing slashes and shouldn't be prefixed with ftp://. port

This parameter specifies an alternate port to connect to. If it is omitted or set to zero, then the default FTP port, 21, will be used. timeout

This parameter specifies the timeout for all subsequent network operations. If omitted, the default value is 90 seconds. The timeout can be changed and queried at any time with ftp_set_option() and ftp_get_option().

Return Values

Returns a SSL-FTP stream on success or FALSE on error.

Examples

  Example#1 ftp_ssl_connect() example
  <?php
  // set up basic ssl connection
  $conn_id = ftp_ssl_connect($ftp_server);
  // login with username and password
  $login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
  echo ftp_pwd($conn_id); // /
  // close the ssl connection
  ftp_close($conn_id);
  ?>

Perl

You will probably need to install the Net::SFTP module. (Check on this !!)

http://search.cpan.org/~dbrobins/Net-SFTP-0.10/lib/Net/SFTP.pm

Example:

   use Net::SFTP;
   my $sftp = Net::SFTP->new($host);
   $sftp->get("foo", "bar");
   $sftp->put("bar", "baz");