php error

Anon

I have a php code that deletes files using unlink. How can I stop the error messages when the file is already deleted and I try to delete the file. I want to make my own custom error so it looks more professional, instead it saying "file in directory not found, error" or something like that.

How can I do that?

Anon

Do a check to ensure the file exists before deleteing it?

Anon

Whithout the source code, I cannot see where to make changes to correct this problem...

If U want, send it to me by E-mail...

Anon

well visitors will be allowed to delete these files too.

here is the code

--snip--
<body>
<form action=delete.php method=post>
<input type="text" name=filename>
<input type=submit>
</form>

<?
if(!unlink(/home/users/$filename))
echo "error";
} else {
unlink(/home/users/$filename);
}
?>

</body>

--snip--

on my server, when i submit it to delete the file it deletes it, but if i try to delete the same file that doesn't exist it says my custom error plus another php error from the server saying file not found in directory to delete. How can I get rid of that error so my visitors see a more custom, professional looking error?

Anon

I assume that you retyped rather than cutting/pasting your code; you forgot some important quotation marks.

You can suppress normal PHP error messages by prepending the @ symbol to the function call:

@unlink("/home/users/$filename");

However, Robert was correct:

if (exists($something)) unlink($something);

... will test for the existence of a file rather than simply trying to unlink missing file. This is better than suppressing the error message because you might miss some other error.