(PECL ssh2 >= 0.9.0)
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.
Пример #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');
?>