How to SFTP with PHP

Question

I have came across many PHP scripts for web FTP clients  I need to implement a SFTP client as a web application in PHP  Does PHP support for SFTP  I couldn t find any samples  Can anyone help me with this

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I performed a full-on cop-out and wrote a class which creates a batch file and then calls sftp via a system call. Not the nicest (or fastest) way of doing it but it works for what I need and it didn't require any installation of extra libraries or extensions in PHP.

Could be the way to go if you don't want to use the ssh2 extensions

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Install Flysystem   composer require league flysystem-sftp   Then   use League Flysystem Filesystem  use League Flysystem Sftp SftpAdapter    filesystem   new Filesystem new SftpAdapter        host    gt   example com        port    gt  22       username    gt   username        password    gt   password        privateKey    gt   path to or contents of privatekey        root    gt    path to root        timeout    gt  10        filesystem- gt listFiles  path      get file lists  filesystem- gt read  path to file      grab file  filesystem- gt put  path      upload file        Read   https   flysystem thephpleague com v1 docs

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I found that  phpseclib  should help you with this  SFTP and many more features   http   phpseclib sourceforge net   To Put the file to the server  simply call  Code example from http   phpseclib sourceforge net sftp examples html put    lt  php include  Net SFTP php      sftp   new Net SFTP  www domain tld    if    sftp- gt login  username    password          exit  Login Failed          puts a three-byte file named filename remote on the SFTP server  sftp- gt put  filename remote    xxx       puts an x-byte file named filename remote on the SFTP server     where x is the size of filename local  sftp- gt put  filename remote    filename local   NET SFTP LOCAL FILE

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PHP has ssh2 stream wrappers  disabled by default   so you can use sftp connections with any function that supports stream wrappers by using ssh2 sftp    for protocol  e g   file get contents  ssh2 sftp   user pass example com 22 path to filename      or - when also using the ssh2 extension   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 http   php net manual en wrappers ssh2 php  On a side note  there is also quite a bunch of questions about this topic already    https   stackoverflow com search q sftp php

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The ssh2 functions aren t very good   Hard to use and harder yet to install  using them will guarantee that your code has zero portability   My recommendation would be to use phpseclib  a pure PHP SFTP implementation

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