I have the attached script which works fine to delete a named file (in tis case 12.jpg) but i want that file name to be deleted to be specified in a form field in a browser. In other words the user enters the file name to be removed and submits the form and the script deletes that file. Any help would be apprciated.

<?php
// set up the settings
$file = 'public_html/admin/12.jpg';

$ftp_server = 'ftp.here.com';
$ftpuser = 'user';
$ftppass = 'abcd1234';

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

// login with username and password
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftpuser, $ftppass);

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

// close the connection
ftp_close($conn_id);

?>

Hello,

Just add a basic HTML form, such as

<form action="" method="post">
Enter file name: <input type="text" name="file" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Delete file!" />
</form>

Then, run the PHP script with the submitted file parameter instead:

PHP Code:

<?
if(isset("submit")) {
 
// set up the settings 
$file = 'public_html/admin/'.$_POST["file"]; 
 
$ftp_server = 'ftp.here.com'; 
$ftpuser = 'user'; 
$ftppass = 'abcd1234'; 
 
// set up basic connection 
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server); 
 
// login with username and password 
$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftpuser, $ftppass); 
 
// try to delete $file 
if (ftp_delete($conn_id, $file)) { // the ftp function 
echo "$file deleted successful\n"; 
} else { 
echo "could not delete $file\n"; 
} 
 
// close the connection 
ftp_close($conn_id);
 
}
?>

Let me know if you can't get it to work!

- Sindre

Thanks for your help but I get the following error report when the page loads:

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_VARIABLE' or `'$'' in /home/micha15431/public_html/admin/delete_script.php on line 78

Line 78 being:

if(isset("submit")) {

Any ideas?

Froggy

Change it to :

PHP Code:

if(isset($submit)) { 


Superb - Thanks Sindre - a great help.