(PECL ssh2 >= 0.9.0)
ssh2_sftp — Initialize SFTP subsystem
$session): resource|falseRequest the SFTP subsystem from an already connected SSH2 server.
This method returns an SSH2 SFTP resource for use with
all other ssh2_sftp_*() methods and the
ssh2.sftp:// fopen wrapper,
or false on failure.
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);
$stream = fopen('ssh2.sftp://' . intval($sftp) . '/path/to/file', 'r');
?>