Delete File ?

The_Chancer

Is there a way of deleting a file through PHP ? Looked at http://www.php.net/filesystem but no joy... any other ideas ?

trooper

You'd need to do a system call in order to delete a file

I think in LInux its "unlink"

system("Unlink $file");

HTH

theeper

You can just do unlink().

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.unlink.php

Weedpacket

'course, if you looked in the manual for "delete" (you'll find it listed under the filesystem functions) you'd find

delete

(no version information, might be only in CVS)
delete -- See unlink() or unset()
Description
void delete ( string file)

This is a dummy manual entry to satisfy those people who are looking for unlink() or unset() in the wrong place.

See also: unlink() to delete files, unset() to delete variables.

scbmx

i use have a unix server and it works fine for any file like this

file = "yourfile.php";
unlink("./$file");
//to show if the file was deleted use
if (file_exists($file)) {
    print "The file $file has ot been deleted";
} else {
    print "The file $file has been deleted";
}

The_Chancer

I had looked in the Manual, but seemingly had selective vision and not realised the words on screen....

My error...

(still burning from Weedpackets caustic words of wisdom...)