Laravel download files via FTP

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

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Storage;
use Response;

class DownloadController extends Controller
{
     function downloadFile(Request $request) {

        $file = $request->get('file');
        if(!$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.'"'
            ));
    }
}

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use Storage;

use Response;

class DownloadController extends Controller

{

function downloadFile(Request $request) {

$file = $request->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');

1	Route::get('downloadFile','[email protected]');

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

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Arjun

I am Arjun from Hyderabad (India). I have been working as a software engineer from last 7+ years, and its my passion to learn new things and implement them as a practice. Aside from work, I likes gardening and spending time with pets.