Just a quick tip regarding ftp connections from within webpages

If your ftp works with for example filezilla, but it does not connect when you try to connect from inside a web page or admin section of a website. One problem might be if your password starts with a $ or has a $ inside of it(other than at the end). The reason is that if the website software pulls the data for password as "password" (double quotes) then what happpens is that it thinks its a variable not text data. For example: your password might be $12345 but the software sees it as and empty variable called $12345 which is null and which is why it fails. Another example: your password is 123$45, in this case the software sees it as 123 because when it sees the $ it thinks thats a variable which is empty so the result is 123 So if you have tried everything you know and your pulling your hair out trying to get your ftp inside a webpage to work then there are two things you can do. 1. Move your $ in your password to the very end of the password, the system will take it. 2. Find where the data is loaded into the array or variable from the webpage form or the php file and where it shows the loading of the variable and you can change the code from "password" to 'password' (single quotes) as single quoted items are taken as is. You need to do this at the first instance of the value storage because after that its wrong all the way through the process. However if there are other places in the process that use "password" you will need to change those as well along the whole ftp connection process. Obviously the easiest way is just change the password. Hope this helps someone bypass the frustration. :)