FTP get file problem.

Hi ppl, I'm having problems trying to get a file from an ftp server. I can connect and view the files from the remote pc who is running the ftp server on my local machine. I am using linux by the way. But i get a warning when trying to retieve the file. The warnings are as followed:

warning: fopen(../var/lib/mysql/table1/file.txt):failed to open stream: no such file or directory in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/file.php

warning ftp_fget() expecrs parameter 2 to be resource, boolean given in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/file.php

warning fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in usr/local/apache/htdocs/file.php

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$localfile_es = "(../var/lib/mysql/table1/file.txt)";
$remotefile_es = "file.txt";

$fp_es = fopen($localfile_es, "w");

if (!$success = ftp_fget($conn_es, $fp_es, $remotefile_es, FTP_BINARY))
{
echo "Error: Could not download file";
fclose($fp_es);
ftp_quit($conn_es);
exit;
}
fclose($fp_es);
echo "File download successfully";

I want to store the file i download to var/lib/mysql/table1/file.txt, is my code correct, please help, thank you.

You are trying to retrive the file via ftp and save it localy?

yup. Can anyone help? Please!!!