Unable to get SFTP working in PHP script

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#1

I need to code a PHP script to do SFTP which requires SSH2 support in PHP. I have libssh2-1 installed but when I try to use the ssh2_connect function I get an error message saying ‘undefined function ssh2_connect()’. There are various things I can find about a package called php-ssh2 but nothing seems to exist for openSUSE TW. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I get this working please? I need a fairly vanilla method as this will have to port to a PHP installation on Windows as well and needs to be fairly straight forward.

Stuart

#2

AFAIK this is not part of php itself. Found this page, http://php.net/manual/en/ssh2.installation.php AFAICS the instructions for Centos should work.

#3

AFAICS, for the case of openSUSE, the SSH2 libraries for PHP5 are in these repositories: <https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/php:/extensions/>.

#4

The OP is on Tw, which has php7.

#5

The issue with the CENTOS instructions is that they dont come up with a downloadable package. I guess I have to work it out myself for a PHP7.4 package.

Stuart

#6

A possible Tumbleweed disadvantage?

#7

Well I managed to download the required package and install it and now it works.

Stuart

#8

Yay, awesome. Thanks for reporting back…

#9

If you have ssh access on your server, you can use PHPseclib to connect to sftp in PHP. PHPseclib is a PHP sftp library that can use to easily create sftp connection and upload and download files from ftp.