Re: Deleting a file after download/upload

Hi there Shawn, Thank you for your help. That works. -- --- Contact info: Skype: parham-d MSN: fire_lizard16 at hotmail dot com email: parham90 at GMail dot com "Shawn McKenzie" <nospam@mckenzies.net> wrote in message news:EE.3D.36467.C02614A4@pb1.pair.com... > Parham Doustdar wrote: >> Hi there, >> I am writing a PHP FTP client for my project. I want to put a "download" >> option and an "upload"" option, but I don't know how. My problem is this: >> How can I make the server the PHP script is on delete the file after >> uploading it to the SFTP, or after the user has finished downloading it >> from the server the PHP script is on? >> Let me put the question this way. >> My server connects to an FTP. Then, it downloads a file from the FTP, and >> then sends me the link to that temperary file on the server. Now, when I >> download it from my server, my script should delete the file. How can I >> make it wait until the download of the file is finished? >> Same goes for uploading. >> Thanks! >> > > Well if you write a download script, then you can delete it at the end > and it won't be deleted until after the download completes: > > //Do your ftp from remote to local'/path/to/file.ext' > exec('ftp_get.sh remotefile.ext /path/to/file.ext); > //or > $conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server); > $login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass); > ftp_gett($conn_id, '/path/to/file.ext', $server_file, FTP_BINARY) > ftp_close($conn_id); > > <?php > //send proper headers for download > readfile('/path/to/file.ext'); > > unlink('/path/to/file.ext'); > ?> > > For upload, depending upon how you're doing it, a call to unlink() > shouldn't execute until your FTP is done and exited: > > <?php > //User uploads file to '/path/to/file.ext' > > exec('ftp_put.sh /path/to/file.ext); > //or > $conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server); > $login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftp_user_name, $ftp_user_pass); > ftp_put($conn_id, $server_file, '/path/to/file.ext', FTP_BINARY) > ftp_close($conn_id); > > unlink('/path/to/file.ext'); > ?> > > -- > Thanks! > -Shawn > http://www.spidean.com