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I have founda that trying to delete a file using relative path like the example below does not work.
$do = unlink("../pics/$fileToDel");
if($do=="1"){
echo "The file was deleted successfully.";
} else { echo "There was an error trying to delete the file."; }
I did not work at all, instead what I had to do was:
chdir('../pics/');
$do = unlink($fileToDel);
if($do=="1"){
echo "The file was deleted successfully.";
} else { echo "There was an error trying to delete the file."; }
Then it worked !
Description
void delete
( void
)
This is a dummy manual entry to satisfy those people who are looking for unlink() or unset() in the wrong place.
Return Values
No value is returned.
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Guilherme Komel
30-Dec-2007 11:14
30-Dec-2007 11:14
bmcouto at hotmail dot com
01-Oct-2006 06:30
01-Oct-2006 06:30
$myFile = "testFile.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fclose($fh);
Now to delete testFile.txt we simply run a PHP script that is located in the same directory. Unlink just needs to know the name of the file to start working its destructive magic.
$myFile = "testFile.txt";
unlink($myFile);
The testFile.txt should now be removed.