hey everyone im working on uploading stuff to a gallery. For uploading i did a chown group 770 for uploading secure stuff.
The Ftp user i login with has access to delete.
but im trying delete the file and iam always getting warning: ftp_delete access not aloud.
anyone have any idea?
Okay as Iam doing more research on this, I know it has to do with permissions.
When uploading. I login ftp_connect(). upload the files. ftp_disconnect();
now when the user tries to delete i do the same exact thing same username and password login but I have issues with access denied when trying to delete. No one ever came across something like this or knows how to fix the problem? i even try doing ftp_chmod() but no effect......
Okay from what i see i can delete files and directorys one by one.
But i want to delete a folder that has files or folders in them so i ran across this:
function ftp_rmdirr($ftp_stream, $directory)
{
// Sanity check
if (!is_resource($ftp_stream) ||
get_resource_type($ftp_stream) !== 'FTP Buffer') {
return false;
}
// Init
$i = 0;
$files = array();
$folders = array();
$statusnext = false;
$currentfolder = $directory;
// Get raw file listing
$list = ftp_rawlist($ftp_stream, $directory, true);
// Iterate listing
foreach ($list as $current) {
// An empty element means the next element will be the new folder
if (empty($current)) {
$statusnext = true;
continue;
}
// Save the current folder
if ($statusnext === true) {
$currentfolder = substr($current, 0, -1);
$statusnext = false;
continue;
}
// Split the data into chunks
$split = preg_split('[ ]', $current, 9, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
$entry = $split[8];
$isdir = ($split[0]{0} === 'd') ? true : false;
// Skip pointers
if ($entry === '.' || $entry === '..') {
continue;
}
// Build the file and folder list
if ($isdir === true) {
$folders[] = $currentfolder . '/' . $entry;
} else {
$files[] = $currentfolder . '/' . $entry;
}
}
// Delete all the files
foreach ($files as $file) {
ftp_delete($ftp_stream, $file);
}
// Delete all the directories
// Reverse sort the folders so the deepest directories are unset first
rsort($folders);
foreach ($folders as $folder) {
ftp_rmdir($ftp_stream, $folder);
}
// Delete the final folder and return its status
return ftp_rmdir($ftp_stream, $directory);
}but when it tries to delete thats what i get the error/warning. Odd?
Are you on shared hosting? Your provider may have disabled the ftp_delete() function for some reason.
Edit: Apologies, didn't read your post carefully enough. You can delete single files so it's not ftp_delete() being disabled by the host.
yea. not sure somethings up?
i use this function now...it seems to work just wondering why the other code would not work(think its a little faster from what i read on the creators post)
function ftp_delAll($conn_id,$dst_dir){
$ar_files = ftp_nlist($conn_id, $dst_dir);
//var_dump($ar_files);
if (is_array($ar_files)){ // makes sure there are files
for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($ar_files);$i++){ // for each file
$st_file = basename($ar_files[$i]);
if($st_file == '.' || $st_file == '..') continue;
if (ftp_size($conn_id, $dst_dir.'/'.$st_file) == -1){ // check if it is a directory
ftp_delAll($conn_id, $dst_dir.'/'.$st_file); // if so, use recursion
}else ftp_delete($conn_id, $dst_dir.'/'.$st_file); // if not, delete the file
}
sleep(1);
ob_flush() ;
}
$flag = ftp_rmdir($conn_id, $dst_dir); // delete empty directories
return $flag;
} // end of function ftp_delAll()
slick101;10916805 wrote:yea. not sure somethings up?
i use this function now...it seems to work just wondering why the other code would not work(think its a little faster from what i read on the creators post)
function ftp_delAll($conn_id,$dst_dir){ $ar_files = ftp_nlist($conn_id, $dst_dir); //var_dump($ar_files); if (is_array($ar_files)){ // makes sure there are files for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($ar_files);$i++){ // for each file $st_file = basename($ar_files[$i]); if($st_file == '.' || $st_file == '..') continue; if (ftp_size($conn_id, $dst_dir.'/'.$st_file) == -1){ // check if it is a directory ftp_delAll($conn_id, $dst_dir.'/'.$st_file); // if so, use recursion }else ftp_delete($conn_id, $dst_dir.'/'.$st_file); // if not, delete the file } sleep(1); ob_flush() ; } $flag = ftp_rmdir($conn_id, $dst_dir); // delete empty directories return $flag; } // end of function ftp_delAll()
Even though it's been almost a year since this post... All I have to say is this..
It's about time!! Thank you very much for this!
Any readers out there looking for a function to not only delete files recursively, but, this function does NOT cause any PHP errors / notices, etc.
I have a database driven error reporting system and as you can imagine the log would build up really fast.
The problem with most ftp_rmdir "recursive" functions out there is that they still cause errors even though the user does not see them, they are really there.
Errors Like:
ftp_rmdir() [function.ftp-rmdir]: Can't remove directory: Not a directory
OR
ftp_rmdir() [function.ftp-rmdir]: Can't remove directory: Directory not empty
Anyway, I can finally go to bad after working on this for about 3 - 4 hours now.
Thanks Again,
Luke