ftp_delete() problem

[webmasternovis]

Hi all,

I'm having a bit of a problem with deleting files from my server...

$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user, $ftp_pass);
$url = "http://www.example.com/folder/uploads/50by50.gif";
ftp_delete($conn_id, $url);

However, I get an error:

Warning: ftp_delete(): Could not delete http://www.example.com/folder/uploads/50by50.gif: No such file or directory in /home/myuser/public_html/folder/submit.php on line 159

All the permissions are set, the file exists, but I still get this error.

Could anyone help please?

Thanks,
Mike

[webmasternovis]

Anyone? 🙂

[devinemke]

perhaps instead of using a absolute URL use the filesystem path (and use [man]file_exists[/man] to make sure that the file is there):

$path = '/path/to/folder/uploads/50by50.gif';
if (file_exists($path)) {ftp_delete($conn_id, $path);}
else {echo $path ' does not exist';}