How do you delete a zip file from a directory?

[ppowell]

Once again, I thought my class method deleteZip() would do the trick, but it never deletes any .zip* file found in a directory:

	/**
	 * Delete any latent ZIP files found in this album.  This method is to be inherited by all listing classes to allow for
	 *  list-wide deletion of latent server-created ZIP files for security purposes
	 *
	 * @access private
	 * @see actual_path
	 * @see is_class
	 */
	function &deleteZip() {									// STATIC VOID METHOD
		global $section, ${$section . 'LocationPath'}, $projectFullName;
		$album = $_REQUEST['album'];
		$locationPath = ($album) ? "${$section . 'LocationPath'}/$album" : ${$section . 'LocationPath'};
		if (@!is_class($this->dbAP, 'DBActionPerformer')) $this->dbAP =& new DBActionPerformer();		// LOCAL INSTANTIATION UNLESS ALREADY EXISTING
		if (!$_ENV['windir']) {									// UNIX VERSION
		 $statMsg = exec("stat \"" . actual_path($locationPath) . "/*.zip*\" 2>&1");	// USE UNIX CHECK 'stat' FOR LOCATING ANY ZIP FILES, DO DELETION IF AT LEAST 1 FOUND
		} else {												// WINDOWS VERSION
		 list($lsKommand, $lsRedirect) = @array_values($this->dbAP->getKommandOSArray('ls'));
		 $statMsg = exec("$lsKommand \"" . actual_path($locationPath) . "/*.zip*\" $lsRedirect");
	  	}
		if (@!unlink(actual_path($locationPath) . '/*.zip*') && !preg_match('/no such file/i', $statMsg)) {					// WEB SERVER CANNOT DELETE ZIP FILES
		 list($removeKommand, $removeRedirect) = @array_values($this->dbAP->getKommandOSArray('rmdir-force'));
		 $msg = exec("$removeKommand  \"" . actual_path($locationPath) . "/*.zip*\" $removeRedirect");					// ALLOW FOR THE SERVER ITSELF TO DELETE THEM
		 if (preg_match('/^rm:/i', $msg) || ($_ENV['windir'] && $msg))
		  die("$projectFullName shut down due to security issue with potentially damaging ZIP file in \"$locationPath\", please contact administrator<p>Error: $msg");
		}
	}

This is what happens:

statMsg = stat: cannot stat `/www/html/tools/app/images/doom/.zip': No such file or directory

um, sorry but there IS at lease 1 zip file in /www/html/tools/app/images/doom called images_of_doom.zip that is auto-generated and does exist when I do "ls -l" via command line, permissions of 0644.

How do I delete it and any other ZIP file, plain and simple, I thought this would work and it doesn't, please help

thanx
phil

[sneakyimp]

i'm wondering if perhaps your server is setup with some kind of crazy virtual hosting situation. maybe try echoing a few commands like

passthru('pwd');

and

passthru('ls -l /www/html/tools/app/images/doom/*.zip');

to the screen to see what comes back?

or perhaps it's a permissions problem? you might need permission to rwx not just the files to be deleted but also the directory above? or perhaps your apache/php is running not as owner of the files but maybe some other group?

[ppowell]

Maybe. However, all worked well the moment I took out the double quotes from the "stat" command:

if (!$_ENV['windir'] && !$_SERVER['windir']) {
 $msg = exec('stat ' . actual_path($locationPath) . '/*.zip* 2>&1');  // WORKS NOW IN UNIX
} else {
 $msg = exec('ls -l "' . actual_path($locationPath) . '/*.zip*"'); // BUT WHAT ABOUT WINDOWS???
}

Phil

[sneakyimp]

glad it's working now?

btw, the command on windows is 'dir'

[ppowell]

Sorry I meant that the Windows connectivity is dynamically handled, so it's "dir /w" for Windows

But that doesn't answer my question: how do I encase a directory in Windows with a wildcard?

Phil

[sneakyimp]

not sure what you mean by 'encase a directory' but this command lists the contents of my system folder:

dir c:\windows:*.*

if you use /w it also works but without the additional info.

[ppowell]

What about this:

dir /w c:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\htdocs\tools\app\include*.zip*

Phil

[sneakyimp]

i think that will work, but you have to put the path in quotes because it contains spaces.