[SOLVED] PHP Unlink()

[wrathican]

hey guys ive created an image gallery and the user can create and delete albums

ive done what i think is needed but my script doesnt delete the image. when i look at the server the image is still there. any idea why this is happening?

 

here is the code im using:

case "delepic":
		//get the album ID
		$picid = $_GET['picid'];
		//get the image name from the db
		$query = "SELECT im_image FROM cy_image WHERE im_id='" . $picid ."'";
		$result = mysql_query($result);
		while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
		{
		$image = $row[0];
		//delete the image
		unlink("../images/gallery/" . $image);
		}
		$query = "DELETE FROM cy_image WHERE im_id='" . $picid ."'";
		mysql_query($query);

		echo "The image has been deleted. Please go <a href='galleryadmin.php'>back</a> and make another selection.";

 

the record set is deleted from the DB so that works

[metrostars]

What have the permissions for the file been set to? They might be getting in the way.

[wrathican]

the perms are set to 604...

the files were uploaded by the script and the script is trying to delete them, should i change the perms to 777?

[metrostars]

that would be preferable. You can cahgne your upload script to set the permissions to 777 so you dont have to every time.

[wrathican]

oo, how how how???

i thought that could be a good idea

[per1os]

www.php.net/chmod

[wrathican]

so some thing like this on my upload script would work?:

 

<?php
//the $randname is an md5 generation of characters and $ext is the extension
$filename = '../images/gallery/' . $randname . '.' . $ext;

//move the file to its new location and name
move_uploaded_file($tmpName, $filename);

//change file perms
chmod ($filename, 0777 )
?>