Posted by Christoph Burschka on 02/01/07 08:41

J.O. Aho schrieb:
> Eric Layman wrote:
>
>> Thanks
>>
>> What I meant was,
>>
>> are there any other solutions other than using php's RMDIR?
>
>
> You could always use exec() and use the systems "rm -rf" instead, as
> long as the webserver is owning the directories, it should go well, and
> with "rm -rf" the directory can be full.
>
Unless PHP safe-mode is enabled - with the file permissions set up in
such a messy way (PHP-created files aren't owned by the FTP user), it's
pretty likely. If that is the case, exec() has no chance.

There might be a way by making a PHP script that deletes them (or making
a PHP script that makes a PHP script that deletes them), but it's awful.

It'd probably be easier to send a support request to your host and ask
them to delete the folders. I've had a similar problem and tried for
several days to delete the folders myself - unsuccessfully.

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If you really need to dynamically create and delete folders from PHP and
have them owned by your FTP user - and you can't change the server
configuration - here's a way that's worked for me:

Have PHP connect to its own server over FTP, logging in with your
account. Inconvenient, but it works.

$link=ftp_connect("localhost");
ftp_login($link,"user","password");
ftp_chdir($link,"your/file/path");
ftp_mkdir($link,"new_folder");
ftp_rmdir($link,"new_folder");
ftp_close($link);

See http://php.net/ftp for more detailed information.

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CB

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