Laravel download files via FTP

Last updated on February 17, 2018

This post is going to be about downloading files from the remote server via FTP mechanism in your Laravel application.

Let’s create a controller called DownloadController.php

get('file');
        if(!$file) {
            return Response::json('please provide valid path', 400);
        }
        $fileName = basename($file);

         $ftp = Storage::createFtpDriver([
                        'host'     => 'your_host',
                        'username' => 'your_ftp_user',
                        'password' => 'your_ftp_user_password',
                        'port'     => '21', // your ftp port
                        'timeout'  => '30', // timeout setting 
          ]); 

           $filecontent = $ftp->get($file); // read file content 
           // download file.
           return Response::make($filecontent, '200', array(
                'Content-Type' => 'application/octet-stream',
                'Content-Disposition' => 'attachment; filename="'.$fileName.'"'
            ));
    }
}

Now let’s inform about this controller to routes/web.php

   Route::get('downloadFile','DownloadController@downloadFile');    

That’s it. Now point your browser to http://yourhost.com/downloadFile?file=remote_path/fileName.png.