[RESOLVED] Deleting Files With No Extension

machouinard

I'm using a temporary script to retrieve and save image attachments from email(pop3) while I learn Zend. Problem is, when the script saves that part of the message body, it also saves two files along with it (more body parts I assume), and gives them numerical names with no extension. I have another script to process those images, but I need to get rid of the files with no extension before that happens. Unlink just tells me "No such file or directory". A shove in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

bradgrafelman

[man]unlink/man will work just fine for removing all files (having extensions or not) that it has permission to do so, therefore if it is saying that there is "no such file or directory" then I'd say check your file path for errors.

EDIT: Also, welcome to PHPBuilder!

machouinard

You are correct Sir! It was a simple path problem. Won't make that mistake again.
So I'm going through the array to either delete the file if it has no extension, or run the rest of the script to process the image file. How do I exempt the directory itself and it's parent directory from scrutiny? Here is the code I'm using right now:

$filenames = scandir($dir);
foreach($filenames as $name){
if (!strpos($name,".")){
unlink ("images/gmail/".$name);
}else{

I know there's a way to do it, I just have yet to find it.

And thanks for the friendly welcome. Looks like I'll be spending a bit of time here.

bradgrafelman

You could use [man]is_dir/man to check if the file path points to a directory, or just check if it's equal to '.' or '..' and skip over those two entries.

machouinard

Thanks for the help. I added an elseif to the loop:

$filenames = scandir($dir);
foreach($filenames as $name){
if (is_dir($name)){
continue;
}
elseif (!strpos($name,".")){
unlink ("images/gmail/".$name);
}else{

Seems to work just fine now.

I really appreciate the quick response!

bradgrafelman

Glad I could help. Don't forget to mark this thread resolved (if it is) using the link on the Thread Tools menu above.