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<?
$filename=stripslashes($_GET['file']);
if(file_exists("$filename"))
{
if(unlink("$filename"))
{
echo "File was successfully deleted";
}
else
{
echo "File was not deleted.";
}
}
else
{
echo "File does not exist.";
}
?>
This checks if the file exists, if the file exists it deletes the file and returns a message confirming the deletion. If the file was not deleted, a message will be returned say the file was not deleted. If the file does not exist, a message will be returned say the file doesn't exist.
To use the script just add at the end of the URL ?file={the file you want to delete}
Ex:
127.0.0.1/delete.php?file=New Text Document.txt
That will delete the file New Text Document.txt
Description
void delete
( void
)
This is a dummy manual entry to satisfy those people who are looking for unlink() or unset() in the wrong place.
Return Values
No value is returned.
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User Contributed Notesdelete
RisingKing
14-Feb-2008 12:41
14-Feb-2008 12:41
Guilherme Komel
30-Dec-2007 12:14
30-Dec-2007 12:14
I have founda that trying to delete a file using relative path like the example below does not work.
$do = unlink("../pics/$fileToDel");
if($do=="1"){
echo "The file was deleted successfully.";
} else { echo "There was an error trying to delete the file."; }
I did not work at all, instead what I had to do was:
chdir('../pics/');
$do = unlink($fileToDel);
if($do=="1"){
echo "The file was deleted successfully.";
} else { echo "There was an error trying to delete the file."; }
Then it worked !
bmcouto at hotmail dot com
30-Sep-2006 09:30
30-Sep-2006 09:30
$myFile = "testFile.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fclose($fh);
Now to delete testFile.txt we simply run a PHP script that is located in the same directory. Unlink just needs to know the name of the file to start working its destructive magic.
$myFile = "testFile.txt";
unlink($myFile);
The testFile.txt should now be removed.