In today’s world with so many third-party integrations and content-sharing, it’s important to understand and make use of protocols like SCP and SFTP. PHP’s SSH2 extension, a wrapper for libssh2 which implements the SSH2 protocol, provides several functions you can use to securely transfer files.
To begin leveraging these functions, it’s obvious the SSH2 package needs to be installed. As it’s a PECL extension, the installation process will depend based on your operating system of choice.