Select Files and Delete

[goaman]

Hi friends!
how to view all the files in a folder with checkboxes and when a button is clicked it should delete the selected file from the folder, can anyone help me with this, please?

Thanks in advance!

[devinemke]

a simple example:

<?php
$path = '/path/to/dir/';

if (!isset($_POST['submit']))
{
	$handle = opendir($path);
	while (($filename = readdir($handle)) !== false)
	{
		if ($filename != '.' && $filename != '..' && is_file($path . $filename))
		{
			$file_array[] = $filename;
		}
	}
	sort($file_array);

echo '<form action="" method="POST">';
echo count($file_array) . ' files in ' . $path . '<br>';	
echo 'check files to delete:<br><br>';

foreach ($file_array as $value)
{
	echo '<input type="checkbox" name="delete[]" value="' . $value . '">' . $value . '<br>';
}

echo '
<br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="delete">
</form>
';	
}
else
{
	foreach ($_POST['delete'] as $value)
	{
		$value = stripslashes($value);
		$unlink = unlink($path . $value);
		echo $path . $value;
		if ($unlink) {echo ' DELETE OK';} else {echo ' DELETE FAIL';}
		echo '<br>';
	}
}
?> 

[goaman]

Hi Devinemke,
forgive me for the late reply..

your code works perfectly.. exactly what I needed 😃😃 but when I click on delete button without selecting, that gives an error, like: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /temp/selectandDelete.php on line 33

It'd be nice to echo a msg or so.. 😃 but anyway.. Thankyou very much it does the JOB, I appreciate your help 😉

[devinemke]

Originally posted by goaman
...but when I click on delete button without selecting, that gives an error

because $_POST['delete'] will not have been set. you need to check to see if it is set before looping through.