importar archivo csv desde un sitio FTP externo

Pensé que solo publicaría el código que resolvió mi problema; descarga un archivo csv desde un sitio FTP externo a mi servidor local. Luego importa el archivo csv a mi tabla de base de datos mysql local. Una vez importado, el archivo en el servidor ftp se elimina. Programo este trabajo en cpanel con cronjob.

No puedo atribuirme el mérito del script, acabo de modificar un script que se encuentra en otro sitio. Estoy seguro de que hay mejores formas de hacer esto con alguna comprobación de errores. Sin embargo, esto es lo mejor que pude hacer con mis habilidades limitadas.

Espero que esto ayude a futuros visitantes con el mismo problema. Gracias a todos los que me ayudaron. Aquí está el código que usé:

<?php

$source = "DespGoods.csv";
$target = fopen("DespGoods.csv", "w");
$conn = ftp_connect("ftp.server.com") or die("Could not connect");

ftp_login($conn,"ftpusername","ftppassword");
ftp_fget($conn,$target,$source,FTP_ASCII);

echo "file downloaded.\n";

/********************************/
/* Code at http://legend.ws/blog/tips-tricks/csv-php-mysql-import/
/* Edit the entries below to reflect the appropriate values
/********************************/
$dbhost = "localhost";
$dbname = "dbname";
$dbtable = "despgoods";
$dbusername ="dbusername";
$dbpassword = "dbpassword";
$fieldseparator = ",";
$lineseparator = "\n";
$csvfile = "DespGoods.csv";
/********************************/
/* Would you like to add an ampty field at the beginning of these records?
/* This is useful if you have a table with the first field being an auto_increment 
/* integer and the csv file does not have such as empty field before the records.
/* Set 1 for yes and 0 for no. ATTENTION: don't set to 1 if you are not sure.
/* This can dump data in the wrong fields if this extra field does not 
/* exist in the table.
/********************************/
$addauto = 0;
/********************************/
/* Would you like to save the mysql queries in a file? If yes set $save to 1.
/* Permission on the file should be set to 777. Either upload a sample file 
/* through ftp and change the permissions, or execute at the prompt: 
/*     touch output.sql && chmod 777 output.sql
/********************************/
$save = 0;
$outputfile = "output.sql";
/********************************/

if(!file_exists($csvfile)) {
    echo "File not found. Make sure you specified the correct path.\n";
    exit;
}

$file = fopen($csvfile,"r");
if(!$file) {
    echo "Error opening data file.\n";
    exit;
}

$size = filesize($csvfile);
if(!$size) {
    echo "File is empty.\n";
    exit;
}

$csvcontent = fread($file,$size);
fclose($file);

$con = @mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbusername,$dbpassword) or die(mysql_error());
@mysql_select_db($dbname) or die(mysql_error());

$lines = 0;
$queries = "";
$linearray = array();

foreach(split($lineseparator,$csvcontent) as $line) {
    $lines++;
    $line = trim($line," \t");
    $line = str_replace("\r","",$line);

    /************************************
    /* This line escapes the special character. 
    /* Remove it if entries are already escaped in the csv file
    /************************************/
    $line = str_replace("'","\'",$line);
    /*************************************/

    $linearray = explode($fieldseparator,$line);
    $linemysql = implode("','",$linearray);

    if($addauto) {
        $query = "insert into $dbtable values('','$linemysql');";
    }
    else {
        $query = "insert into $dbtable values('$linemysql');";
    }
    $queries .= $query . "\n";
    @mysql_query($query);
}

@mysql_close($con);
if($save) {
    if(!is_writable($outputfile)) {
        echo "File is not writable, check permissions.\n";
    }
    else {
        $file2 = fopen($outputfile,"w");

        if(!$file2) {
            echo "Error writing to the output file.\n";
        }
        else {
            fwrite($file2,$queries);
            fclose($file2);
        }
    }
}

echo "Found a total of $lines records in this csv file.\n";

$source = "DespGoods.csv";
$target = fopen("DespGoods.csv", "w");
$conn = ftp_connect("ftp.server") or die("Could not connect");

ftp_login($conn,"ftpusername","ftppassword");
ftp_delete($conn,$source);
ftp_close($conn);

echo "file deleted";
mysql_close($con);

?>