unlink

[Anon]

Hello everyone.

I'm having some problems with the unlink() command.
Let's say im in the directory develop/stuff/members. If I refer to the file being /www/files/stuff/photos/user-1.jpg, I get the error: Warning: Unlink failed (No such file or directory)
And yet, the file is there.
I tried using:
../../../www/files/stuff/photos/user-1.jpg
and the actual location name (http://whatever.com/photos/user-1.jpg)
Those didn't work either.

Here's a chunk of the code I'm using:

$nick = strtolower($nick);
$photo_file = "/www/files/stuff/photos/$nick-$num.jpg";
$thumb_file = "/www/files/stuff/thumbs/$nick-$num.jpg";

if (unlink($thumb_file))
{
echo "<br>Thumbnail deleted successfully.<br>\n";
}
else
{
echo "<br>Thumb deletion failed.<br>\n";
}

if (unlink($photo_file))
{
echo "<br>Photo deleted successfully.<br>\n";
}
else
{
echo "<br>Photo deletion failed.<br>\n";
}

Please let me know where I'm messin up...
Thanks for any help you can provide.
-=John=-

[rogair]

You sure that the file directory from the server root is /www/files/stuff/photos/$nick-$num.jpg

do a PWD from a telnet prompt and make sure there's nothing before the /www

BTW using a URL like http://www.... will not work because PHP looks at the directory structure, not URLs.

[lazzerous]

I made sure of that before I posted.
Is there a different way I need to define the path to the file?

[Anon]

Not sure. I've used that function in that way and not had trouble. Are you on a Unix box, or Win platform??

[Anon]

How can I get my script to override the NT server settings so that my script can delete files in specific directories? Maybe executing as a server process or something...I don't know.

[jburfield]

I was having a similar problem. I solved it by doing a chdir into the directory that contained the file I wanted to delete.

Basically, you can change into that directory, list the files and then delete them. From there you can change out of the directory and delete the whole directory if you like...

I mention that because I was having problems removing a directory...

Hope this helps.

-- Jason