note 11222 added to fsockopen

If you're trying to connect to an FTP address without using ftp_connect(); then you can do this: $tftp = fsockopen("ftp.blah.com", 21, $errno, $errstr, 60) or die("Connection failed."); socket_set_blocking($tftp, false); fputs($tftp, "USER username\n"); fputs($tftp, "PASS password\n"); fputs($tftp, "DELE /home/somefilename.blh\n"); sleep(1); fclose($tftp); NOTE THE "sleep(1);" THIS IS REQUIRED. I had a few problems where it was not executing the commands if I had not added the a delay after the actual fput requests. I guess what was happening was that it was closing the FTP connection before it could actually finish the commands on the servers side. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php