Re: Hoping for a working example of SFTP in PHP

[David Spector <david025@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sam, I assume you mean error reporting from the remote server, not the 
local server. I agree. PHP does not, in general, report errors and 
verbose output that is generated by the remote server directly.

However, in the case under discussion, there would exist no such error 
message, since the connection commands were all successful and the 
'copy' command never referenced the remote server at all. This is an 
example of a bug that will probably never be easy to find.

By the way, I like the idea behind your 'samples' website. We seriously 
need a standard place to find and contribute programming examples of all 
kinds, languages, and, where relevant, OSs.

GitHub 'gists' might have filled this role if they had been designed to 
be more flexible, searchable, and only had programming examples. 
Similarly for PasteBin, CodePen, and other programming sandboxes.

If you made your website look "modern", organized it a bit deeper, 
supported versions, and had forms for submitting contributions, your 
site could be the nucleus of such an online utility. Are you ready to 
create and maintain a heavily-used public site? A free site that has all 
the attractive appearance and facilities that people want in a 
'programming examples' website would certainly have a good chance of 
being successful.

David