delete files

[jagguy]

I want to read in a directory of filenames, and decide which files to delete by going through the filenames.

The problem is I forget how to read in a dir(I am sure I could do it a while ago) and when deleting on winxp home with ulink() I always get permission denied.

[willfitch]

Here is an example of opening the temp directory and reading all sessions:

[code=php:0]
<?php
$session_dir = '../Tmp';
$handle = opendir($session_dir);
while (($file = readdir($handle)) != false) {
if (ereg("^sess", $file)) {
  $fhandle = file($session_dir.'/'.$file);
  printf("<pre>%s</pre>",print_r($fhandle[0],1));
}
}
?>
[/code]

Also, I think you mean unlink(). 

[matto]

You will get a permission denied error on *nix if the user the server is running as (sometimes known as 'nobody') doesn't own or belong to the group for the file you are attempting to delete.

Hope this helps...

;)

[jagguy]

hi,

i have winxp home so i think your talking about unix type.
I have no idea how to set the permissions for this, as it seems to be OK already.