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Deletes a file on the FTP server
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ftp_delete

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

ftp_deleteDeletes a file on the FTP server

Description

bool ftp_delete ( resource $ftp_stream , string $path )

ftp_delete() deletes the file specified by path from the FTP server.

Parameters

ftp_stream

The link identifier of the FTP connection.

path

The file to delete.

Return Values

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

Examples

Example #1 ftp_delete() example

<?php
$file 
'public_html/old.txt';

// set up basic connection
$conn_id ftp_connect($ftp_server);

// login with username and password
$login_result ftp_login($conn_id$ftp_user_name$ftp_user_pass);

// try to delete $file
if (ftp_delete($conn_id$file)) {
 echo 
"$file deleted successful\n";
} else {
 echo 
"could not delete $file\n";
}

// close the connection
ftp_close($conn_id);
?>


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