How to use unlink()

daddymac

What I am wanting to do is have a form to where I can input the image name and then click on the delete button and the image is removed from my server. I have around 5 or 6 folder and will add more later. So how would I use the unlink() command to select a folder and then the image so that I can delete it out? Please any help would be greatful.

php_dev

If you have more then one folder that is used for holding images, when you insert that name of the image into the form, if you include the accompanying folder, it will work properly.

Example: 'images_one/image1.jpg'

However if you don't know what folder that image is being housed in, or if you want to delete all instances of an image in all folders, you could write a function that checks for the image name in each folder, and if found deletes it that way. I hope that atleast gets you started.

Hope it helps,
php_dev

daddymac

Yes I do not mind writing out folder/image1.png and then clicking the button to delete it. I just cant get any code to work. I am a complete newbie to this stuff. I was told I would need a whitelist so that only certain files could be deleted?

It is confusing me.

NogDog

$folder = "path/to/folder";
$file = "file_name";
unlink($folder . '/' . $file);

daddymac

Thanks NogDog. How would I tie that to a small form. o I can just place the form on one page then fill in the textarea with the path to the file then click on delete?