diff --git a/htdocs/core/lib/ftp.lib.php b/htdocs/core/lib/ftp.lib.php
index 42f5806fba5..928a7e4a934 100644
--- a/htdocs/core/lib/ftp.lib.php
+++ b/htdocs/core/lib/ftp.lib.php
@@ -218,6 +218,35 @@ function dol_ftp_get($connect_id, $file, $newsection)
 	}
 }
 
+/**
+ * Upload a FTP file
+ *
+ * @param 		resource	$connect_id		Connection handler
+ * @param 		string		$file			File
+ * @param 		string		$newsection			$newsection
+ * @return		result
+ */
+function dol_ftp_put($connect_id, $file, $newsection)
+{
+
+	global $conf;
+
+	if (!empty($conf->global->FTP_CONNECT_WITH_SFTP)) {
+		$newsection = ssh2_sftp_realpath($connect_id, ".").'/./'; // workaround for bug https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64169
+	}
+
+	// Remote file
+	$filename = $file;
+	$remotefile = $newsection.(preg_match('@[\\\/]$@', $newsection) ? '' : '/').$file;
+	$newremotefileiso = utf8_decode($remotefile);
+
+	if (!empty($conf->global->FTP_CONNECT_WITH_SFTP)) {
+		return fopen('ssh2.sftp://'.intval($connect_id).$newremotefileiso, 'r');
+	} else {
+		return ftp_put($connect_id, $localfile, $newremotefileiso, FTP_BINARY);
+	}
+}
+
 /**
  * Remove FTP directory
  *