File deletion Problem

chugger93

what the heck am I doing wrong here? What I wanna do is copy a file to another dir (sub dir) So Im guessing I need a path. Then after it's copied, I want to delete it.

Any help?

  if (!copy($filename, $filename.'.bak')) {
   echo "failed to copy $filename...<br />\n"; 
}
else {
    echo "<center><b><font face=\"Verdana\" color=\"#C61839\">Your Log File Has Been Backed Up.
   <br>It can be found <a href=\"http://dets2008/bincount/click_log.dat.bak\"><font color=\"red\">here</a></font></font></b></center>";}

if (file_exists($filename))  

    {  

        unlink("$filename");  

        return ("File $filename has been deleted."); 
    }else{  

        return ("$filename could not be found!"); 
    }  

}

pete_bisby

It might be the double-quotes within the unlink statement.

Just try unlink($filename), and see if that works.

tommynanda

wats the output?

pete_bisby

Output for unlink() is boolean/integer - returns TRUE if successful, FALSE otherwise. So,:

$gone = unlink($filename);

chugger93

I've tried without the double quotes already and no luck, the script doesnt even execute. I get a blank page. Weird eh

chugger93

actually i got it to work now. THere was an extra bracket right at the end, u can see it above.

So the script works now, but still doesnt delete (unlink) my file. I still see it ! dam

tommynanda

Originally posted by pete_bisby
Output for unlink() is boolean/integer - returns TRUE if successful, FALSE otherwise. So,:
$gone = unlink($filename);
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nah... It should work for

unlink($filename);
unlink("$filename");

too you dont "need" to store the result