How to use the unlink function?

[Jurik]

Hi people i'm trying to work-out how to use the unlink() function in PHP, I have a file in a folder called videos can the file is called ICT_Video how do I go about using the unlink function to delete this file when the delete link is pressed?

[xsist10]

Are you running under windows or unix derivative.

If you are running under unix you'll need to have permissions set on the file before you can delete it (unlink is an alias of delete).

[thedarkwinter]

Hi

as long as you have permission to delete the file you can just call

[code]<?php
$filename = "/tmp/ictmovie.txt";
unlink($filename);
[/code]

From a web-page the user is something like "apache" or "www-data" so its not "root" therefore you may not have permission to delete the file if its owned by root. If you are running an MS server, im not suer how the persmissions work but you need to check in IIS or Apache (whatever your web-server is).

Cheers,
tdw

[Jurik]

Im using windows and EasyPHP, its going to run off a local server its not going to be on the internet.

Will I need to set permissions then? Alsonin regards to the $filename = "/tmp/ictmovie.txt"; peice of code. I have the ictmovie.mov stored in a MYSQL database and when the user clicks deletes I want it to find the name of the file from the database, go to the fodler and delete it, is this possible with unlink?