(PECL ssh2:0.10-0.9)
ssh2_sftp — Initialize SFTP subsystem
Request the SFTP subsystem from an already connected SSH2 server.
An SSH connection link identifier, obtained from a call to ssh2_connect().
This method returns an SSH2 SFTP resource for use with all other ssh2_sftp_*() methods and the ssh2.sftp:// fopen wrapper.
Example #1 Opening a file via SFTP
<?php$connection = ssh2_connect('shell.example.com', 22);ssh2_auth_password($connection, 'username', 'password');$sftp = ssh2_sftp($connection);$stream = fopen("ssh2.sftp://$sftp/path/to/file", 'r');?>