How to Download all Files listed in a directory from SFTP in laravel 5.6

Question

I am new to laravel. I am making an application in which I check a directory that is being served on an SFTP. By looking into the documentation I was successfully able to list all the file names inside a directory hosted on that SFTP.

My next goal is to save all those in a local folder public/InputFiles but how do I do that? I have tried several combinations but none has helped.

Here is what I have done. In config/filesystem.php I have

'disks' => [

    'local' => [
        'driver' => 'local',
        'root' => storage_path('app'),
    ],

    'public' => [
        'driver' => 'local',
        'root' => public_path().'/InputFiles',
        'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage',
        'visibility' => 'public',
    ],

    'sftp' => [
        'driver' => 'sftp',
        'host' => 'exampleHost.com',
        'username' => 'username',
        'password' => 'password',
    ]

In my controller I have this function

public function getFilesFromFtp()
{
    //all files are present inside 'outgoing' folder
    $file_list = Storage::disk('sftp')->allFiles('outgoing/');
    
    foreach ($file_list as $key => $value) {
        # code...

        //output the name of the files
        $this->printVariable(str_replace("outgoing/", "", $value));
        Storage::disk('public')->put(str_replace("outgoing/", "", $value), Storage::disk('sftp')->download($value));
        
    }

For example I had a file named as sample.txt inside the outgoing folder on SFTP. Inside this file I had text as Sample text.

By using the above method, I was able to see the sample.txt file made in desired location but its contents were as follows

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Cache-Control: no-cache, private
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="sample.txt"
Content-Length: 12
Content-Type: text/plain
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:35:10 GMT

This is not what I want. I actually want to save the file as it is just like on SFTP. How do I do that?

Answer 1

Just changed the line to

Storage::disk('public')->put(str_replace("outgoing/", "", $value), Storage::disk('sftp')->get($value));

So basically I am getting file from sftp and putting it in local directory. No need to download it.