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delete file

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 7:40 am
by irealms
i want a user to be able to press a link that deletes a record from a database and a file at the same time. I know how to delete from a database but how do i delete a file from the directory?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 8:20 am
by DuFF
I could give you an easy example but it'll be better for you if you do it yourself :wink: . Check out: http://us2.php.net/unlink. If you need it, $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] will start the path to the file at the root directory.

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 8:32 am
by irealms
ok thanks , so something like :

int unlink ('uploads/'.$_GET[remove].'');

where the $_GET is the filename i want to delete

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 8:48 am
by DuFF
Yeah that should work. Though I'm not sure why you have "int" at the beggining of the line.

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 9:03 am
by irealms
works great thanks :)