ssh2_sftp

(PECL ssh2 >= 0.9.0)

ssh2_sftpInitialize SFTP subsystem

Description

ssh2_sftp(resource $session): resource|false

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, or false on failure.

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);

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

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