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read

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API Home Package Joomla.Framework Subpackage Client Class JFTP Method read Reference read() Never Work in Progress

This method reads a file from the FTP server’s contents into the specified buffer. This method returns true if successful, false otherwise.

Syntax

boolean read ( $remote, &$buffer )

$remote string is a string containing the path to remote file to read on the FTP server.
$buffer string is a buffer variable to read the contents of the file into.

Examples

Example

jimport( 'joomla.connector.ftp' );

$ftp = new JFTP( array( 'type' => FTP_BINARY ) );
$ftp->connect( '127.0.0.1' );
$ftp->login( 'testuser', 'testpass' );

$buffer = '';
$ftp->read( 'test/robots.txt', $buffer );
echo $buffer;

might produce:

Results

User-agent: * 
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /editor/
Disallow: /help/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /mambots/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /installation/