FTP sends the password in clear text which is a potential security issue if one is on wireless or some other potentially compromised internet access point. The use of SFTP or SSH would keep this from being a problem. However, use of these is a bit more complicated then a simple ftp transfer so it will take me a bit.

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coderintherye commented
Title: Need use SFTP or SSH instead of FTP » Add option for SSH / SCP in addition to FTP

Could leverage this: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.ssh2-scp-send.php

Or pure PHP implementation: http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/documentation/net.html