Delete files from FTP server

When we need to delete files which hosted on FTP server we need to get permissions to write. So to do that We need to connect to the FTP server.


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<?php
$ftp_server = "Ftp_server_address_goes_ehre";
ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Could not connect to $ftp_server");
?>


complete PHP code to delete file from FTP server.


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<?php
// connect and login to FTP server
$ftp_server = "FTP_server_address_goes_here";
$ftp_conn = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Could not connect to $ftp_server");

$ftp_username = "ftp_username";
$ftp_userpass = "ftp_password";
$login = ftp_login($ftp_conn, $ftp_username, $ftp_userpass);
//provide the file name with the path starting from default root directory
$file = "public_html/files/file.txt";

// try to delete file
if (ftp_delete($ftp_conn, $file))
  {
  $msg = "$file deleted";
  }
else
  {
  $msg = "Could not delete $file";
  }
echo $msg;
// close connection
ftp_close($ftp_conn);
?>



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