ActiveSocket Toolkit Add network capabilities to any Windows or .NET application

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PHP TFTP Client Sample Source Code

ActiveSocket provides an easy-to-use development interface to a variety of IP protocols. By using ActiveSocket, you can very easily create or enhance applications with network features.

ActiveSocket features the following: DNS, FTP, HTTP, HTTPs, ICMP Ping, IP-to-Country, MSN, NTP, RSH, SCP, SFTP, SNMP v1/v2c (Get, GetNext, Set), SNMP Traps, SNMP MIB, SSH, TCP, Telnet, TFTP, UDP, Telnet, Wake-On-LAN and more.

ActiveSocket can be well integrated into PHP environments. This document describes how the ActiveSocket TftpServer object can be integrated into PHP code.

The most important functions of the TftpServer object are:

  • GetFile - get (download) a file, either using binary transfer or ASCII transfer;
  • PutFile - put (upload) a file, either using binary transfer or ASCII transfer;

Step 1: Download and install the ActiveSocket Toolkit

Download the ActiveSocket Toolkit from the ActiveXperts Download Site and start the installation. The installation guides you through the installation process.

Step 2: Create a html form

To connect to an tftp server using php we need to collect the login information from the user, then connect to the server and then view the content.

First of all we need to collect some information from the user. Like the username, the password and ofcourse the server we are going to connect to. Perhaps you'd like to change the directory or/and create a logfile at logon. You can make the form look like this.

PHP

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Step 3: Create the ActiveSocket object

If you wat to use ActiveSocket Tftp in php, you need to create an object. In php this means you need to create a new COM. The following code shows how to do this. 

<?

//create the ActiveSocket TFTP object
$activeTftp = new com("ActiveXperts.TftpServer");

?>

Full Sample Code

There are TFTP samples included with the product. You can also find them on the ActiveXperts FTP site: ftp.activexperts-labs.com/samples/network-component.