Ftp delete a Symlink?

[Birdman]

Does anyone know how to delete a symlink with PHP's FTP functions?

I'm using a recursive ftp_rmdir function but it won't delete the symbolic link.

Thanks in advance!

[Habtom]

Birdman, got the solution?

[Birdman]

Hi,

Yes, I finally figured it out. This function below uses ftp_size() to determine if it's a directory or a file. "-1" usually means it's a directory, except if it encounters a symlink. That also returns -1.

My solution was a hack because I knew the symlink was always going to be a zip file, so I just strpos()ed for ".zip" then used ftp_delete() and it worked.

I couldn't find a ftp function to check for symlbolic links, but I know there is is_link(), which you would then have to determine the server path to the file, not the ftp path.

function ftp_rmAll($conn_id,$dst_dir){ 
 $ar_files = ftp_nlist($conn_id, $dst_dir); 
 if (is_array($ar_files)){ // makes sure there are files 
 for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($ar_files);$i++){ // for each file 
  $st_file = $ar_files[$i]; 
  if($st_file == '.' ¦¦ $st_file == '..') continue; 
  $size = ftp_size($conn_id, $dst_dir.'/'.$st_file); 
  if ($size == -1 && strpos($st_file, '.zip') === false){ // check if it is a directory or zip file(sym) 
  $this->ftp_rmAll($conn_id, $dst_dir.'/'.$st_file); // if so, use recursion 
  } else { 
  ftp_delete($conn_id, $dst_dir.'/'.$st_file); 
  } 
 } 
 } 
 $flag = ftp_rmdir($conn_id, $dst_dir); 
 //return $flag; 
}