ftp_alloc() function in PHP

The ftp_alloc() function allocates space for a file to be uploaded to the FTP server.

Syntax

ftp_alloc(connection,size_of_file,res);

Parameters

• connection − The FTP connection to use

• size_of_file − The number of bytes to allocate

• res − A variable to store the server response

Return

The ftp_alloc() function returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure

Example

The following is an example −

<?php
   $myFile = "demo.txt";
   $con = ftp_connect('192.168.0.4');
   $login_result = ftp_login($con, 'yuvgj2j', 'yuvgj2j');
   if (ftp_alloc($con, filesize($myFile), $res)) {
      echo "Sending $file
";
      ftp_put($con, 'D:/ds', $myFile, FTP_BINARY);
   } else {
      echo "Failed in allocating space! Message = $res
";
   }
   ftp_close($con);
?>