You can make a script delete itself with ftp_delete!
It's pretty useful when creating an install script which you want to destroy at the end of the installation to prevent it from being run later.
On Linux machines, very often the user uploads third party scripts, and gets asked to CHMOD this and delete that manually because the webserver user is different from the FTP user ; make them enter their FTP info and get rid of the tedious file manipulation step!
Be careful, though. You will need to flush the output buffer and call ftp_delete at the end of the script, or else the script will die before it fully executes. Look up ob_end_flush for more info.
ftp_delete
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
ftp_delete — Cancella un file sul server FTP
Descrizione
bool ftp_delete
( resource $ftp_stream
, string $path
)
ftp_delete() cancella il file specificato da path dal server FTP.
Example #1 Esempio di funzione ftp_delete()
<?php
$file = 'public_html/old.txt';
// stabilisce la connessione
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
// si collega con nome utente e password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass);
// prova a cancellare $file
if (ftp_delete($conn_id, $file)) {
echo "$file cancellato correttamente\n";
} else {
echo "impossibile cancellare $file\n";
}
// chiude la connessione
ftp_close($conn_id);
?>
Restituisce TRUE in caso di successo, FALSE in caso di fallimento.
ftp_delete
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03-Apr-2005 10:37
03-Apr-2005 10:37
