Deleting Info

BleedingSky

Hey guys, I have yet another noob question, hehe. Ok, I've set up a php upload script as well as a script that displays all the images that in a directory. Now, my question is, is there a way that I can create a script that will delete images from a directory?

flameche

Yes, according that the process php runs under has the rights to delete the files.

The rest is in the documentation:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php

wilzy

Thats right. You have to ensure that you have appropriate permissions to remove the files.

Try using the boolean function unlink()

Eg: unlink("myimage.jpg");

You could even throw it into an IF statement for error checking purposes as it IS a boolean statement. It will return TRUE if successfully removed and FALSE if it isnt.

Regards

BleedingSky

Correct me if I'm wrong, but do those not only apply if you know the name of the image you are trying to delete? I'd like a command that will delete everything within the directory in one shot.

flameche

You can read the directory content then delete every file one by one or use the system function which I find is not a secure way to do what you want

system( 'rm -R mydir/*' );