Create a cPanel FTP Account

July 22nd, 2007 - brett

WHM/cPanel
create ftp

This snippet will allow you to create a cPanel database using PHP.

// your cPanel username

$cpanel_user = 'root';

// your cPanel password

$cpanel_pass = 'password';

// your cPanel skin

$cpanel_skin = 'x2';

// your cPanel domain

$cpanel_host = 'yourdomain.com';

// ftp username

$ftp_user = 'ftpuser';

// ftp password

$ftp_pass = 'ftppass';

// ftp home directory

$ftp_home = 'public_html/ftpuser';

// ftp quota

$ftp_quota = '50';

// create the ftp account

$request = "http://{$cpanel_user}:{$cpanel_pass}@{$cpanel_host}:2082";

$request .= "/frontend/{$cpanel_skin}/ftp/doaddftp.html";

$request .= "?login={$ftp_user}";

$request .= "&password={$ftp_pass}";

$request .= "&homedir={$ftp_home}";

$request .= "&quota={$ftp_quota}";

$result = file_get_contents($request);

echo $result;