[RESOLVED] Problem with unlink()

ali_p

Hi,

I am trying to use unlink to remove .jpgs from a folder, which has its permissions set to 777.

$file = 'www.mysite.com/flash_images/$flash_image';

$fh = fopen($file, 'w') or die("can't open file");

fclose($fh);

 unlink($file);

However all i keep getting is "can't open file". Is there something really obvious that i'm neglecting here, its seems simple enough....

Thanks in advance

The_Chancer

Check which directory you are in (getcwd()) and set the $file to have the correct directory structure from there. You can use a relative path too...

Alternatively use $file = '/www.mysite.com/etc/etc/etc'; Which would set it from the root dir.

ali_p

Thanks, yeah i tried what you suggested , using the

Alternatively use $file = '/www.mysite.com/etc/etc/etc'; Which would set it from the root dir.

Still wont remove the file.

dagon

should be

$file = 'www.mysite.com/flash_images/'.$flash_image;

well the local version

$file = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/flash_images/'.$flash_image;

you could even try

passthru('rm '. $file');

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ali_p

Thanks again, but its still not deleting.

Is there another way to delete files apart from unlink. Also I read somewhere that locked files could cause these problems. How would I know if my files are locked, is there a way of testing for this??

Many thanks

ali_p

OK I just got this working now by using the full server path. So it looks like this :

$filepath = 'C:/home/mysite/www/flash_images/'.$flash_image;

Thanks for everyones help with this.