PHP: Can't get a directory listing using FTP?

[LearningJunkie]

I'm working through an example in a great PHP teaching book called "Spring Into PHP 5."

The goal is to connect to an FTP server and get a listing of the directory code22 on that server. The code is as follows:

$connect = ftp_connect("ftp.ispname.com");
$result = ftp_login($connect, "username", "password");

$a = ftp_nlist($connect, "code22");

foreach($a as $value) {
echo $value, "<BR>";
}

This code, however, runs but does not return any listings. Are "ftp.ispname.com" and "code22" things that I need to create, or are they things that already exist on the web?

I'm running a Mac with MAMP as my server.

Thank you for answering my newbie question!

 

[flybishop]

ftp.ispname.com is a fake address for the example purpose.

It could have said ftp.example.com too.

You would need to create an FTP account in your MAMP server settings and make that your address.