Help! Problem with ECHO

[kpowning]

I have the following script on a page, and when the page is loaded, it automatically echos the last $msg field where the script ends.. What is wrong with this? I only want the $msg to be echoed out if the form is submitted.

My script:

// *** Start the session
session_start();
//connect to database
include '/mysqldb.php';
if (!db_connect())
    die("database error");

$username = $_SESSION['username'];

$msg = "";
$dir = "/members/images";

//delete existing image.
if (isset($_POST['delete'])){
$result = mysql_query("SELECT vimage FROM membersrigs WHERE username = '$username'"); 
$vimage = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); 
$deletevimage = $vimage['vimage'];
$locvimage = "/webapp/vhosts/[e-mail]/members/images/$deletevimage"; 
unlink($locvimage);
$result = mysql_query("UPDATE membersrigs SET vimage = null WHERE username = '$username'"); 
$msg = "You have successfully deleted your vehicles image. Please go back and upload a new image at this time.";
} else {
$msg = "There is no image to delete. Please go back and upload your vehicles image now!";
}

And the HTML form:

<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
<div align="center">
<input name="delete" type="submit" id="delete" value="Delete Existing Image">
</div>
</form>
<p align="center"><strong><font color="#FF0000">

if ($msg != "")
	echo "<p>" . $msg;

[python_q]

Ok, so I assume it's echoing "There is no image to delete..." and you don't want it to. There is a problem with your if-else statement. It will use the else statement even if the form hasn't been submitted yet. Just put a hidden variable in the form like so: <input type="hidden" name="sent" value="true">
Now surround the entire if-else statement with if(isset($_POST['sent']))
Try that and see if it works.

[kpowning]

I get the following error now:

Warning: unlink(/members/images/) [function.unlink]: Operation not permitted in /members/delete.php on line 19

Also is echos

$msg = "You have successfully deleted your vehicles image. Please go back and upload a new image at this time.";

No matter what I try. What am I doing wrong???

Here is the script now:

// *** Start the session
session_start();
$username = $_SESSION['username'];

$msg = "";
$dir = "/members/images";

//delete existing image.
if(isset($_POST['sent'])) {
if (isset($_POST['delete'])){
$result = mysql_query("SELECT vimage FROM membersrigs WHERE username = '$username'"); 
$vimage = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); 
$deletevimage = $vimage['vimage'];
$locvimage = "/members/images/$deletevimage"; 
unlink($locvimage);
$result = mysql_query("UPDATE membersrigs SET vimage = null WHERE username = '$username'"); 
$msg = "You have successfully deleted your vehicles image. Please go back and upload a new image at this time.";
} else if ( '' == $vimage['vimage']) {
$msg = "There is no image to delete, please go back and upload your image.";
}
}

I even tried it with out my if( '' == $vimage['vimage']) statement and just used the else clause. Still same thing happens.