Delete a file via FTP (without PHP FTP support)

// Delete a file via FTP function deleteFileViaFTP($ftpServer, $user, $password, $ftpDir, $ftpFile) { $error = FALSE; // Open connection to FTP port $ftp = fsockopen($ftpServer,21); $foo = fgets($ftp); if (!ereg("^220*", $foo)) { $error = "*** Error! FTP service not ready ***\r\n"; } // Submit user name and password fputs($ftp,"USER $user\r\n"); $foo = fgets($ftp); if (!ereg("^331*", $foo)) { $error = "*** Error! USER commend unsuccessful ***\r\n"; } fputs($ftp,"PASS $password\r\n"); $foo = fgets($ftp); if (!ereg("^230*", $foo)) { $error = "*** Error! PASS command unsuccessful ***\r\n"; } // Change to the proper directory fputs($ftp,"CWD $ftpDir\r\n"); $foo = fgets($ftp); if (!ereg("^250*", $foo)) { $error = "*** Error! CWD command unsuccessful ***\r\n"; } // Delete the file fputs($ftp,"DELE $ftpFile\r\n"); $foo = fgets($ftp); if (!ereg("^250*", $foo)) { $error = "*** Error! DELEte command unsuccessful\r\n"; } // Wrap it up fputs($ftp,"QUIT\r\n"); $foo = fgets($ftp); if (!ereg("^221*", $foo)) { $error = "*** Error! FTP service closed abnormally *** \r\n"; } fclose($ftp); // Return TRUE if the file has been deleted $fileUri = "ftp://$user:$password@$ftpServer/$ftpDir/$ftpFile"; $fp = @fopen($fileUri, "r"); if (!$fp) { return TRUE; } else { return FALSE; } }