I have used the curlftpfs & FUSE for this mount

emerge curlftpfs

This will install the curlftpfs library & FUSE

We nom need to load the kernel module

modprobe fuse

We can now mount the FTP server

curlftpfs ftp://username:password@ventexwebdesigns.com.au/public_html /root/Desktop/PHP/

You should now find your filesystem mounted

When your finished run

fusermount -u /root/Desktop/PHP/

To unmount the FTP connection