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Mon, 11/27/2006 - 05:00 — onaje

Deleting a file

Simple file delete example using a form

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I received an email about deleting a file and I'm posting part of my reply here. I may expand it to be a full tutorial.

The unlink() function deletes files in PHP. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.unlink.php

You should have read/write privileges to the directory that you're going to be deleting from (chmod 777)

This is a simple example of using a form to delete a file.

Code:

<?php
if ($submit && $deleteimage) {

function Delete_Photo($name){
$delete = unlink($name);
if($delete){
print "$name has been deleted...";
}else{
echo "Could not delete";
}
}

Delete_Photo($deleteimage);
}else{
?>
<p>
<form action="<? print $PHP_SELF; ?>" method="post">
<input class="content" type="text" name="deleteimage">
<input class="content" type="submit" name="submit" value="delete file">
</form>
<?
}
?>

[ This Message was edited by: Dakath on 2001-10-20 13:15 ]

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