How to Delete Images .. (not unlink)

[techiefreak05]

I have a photo system on my site. users can upload images and have people comment them .. and when people upload images the URL of the image is stored in a database, and i have a button to delete the image, it removes the img data from the database, but it still is on the server, i want to ACTUALLY delete the file, as to save space.

how can i do this??

thanks for your time

[keeB]

Hmm... this is tricky. Why don't you want to use unlink?

[techiefreak05]

Well would unlink actually delete the file ?? well i tried but it doesnt work ..

heres what i had:

<?php
$myFile = $imgPath;
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
fclose($fh);
?>

$imgPath is a fetched array from a database ...

<?php
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `images` WHERE `userid` = '$_SESSION[id]'";
$query=mysql_query($sql);
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($query)){
$userID=$row['userid'];
$imgID=$row['id'];
$imgPATH=$row['imgPath'];
$headline=$row['headline'];
?>

and when i try to unlink .. it displays "Can't open file."

[trq]

I dont see where you use unlink in the above code. If $imgPath holds the path to the file....

[code=php:0]
unlink($imgPath);
[/code]