Vegasvikk Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Hi group and Larry: I was wondering if there was a way, after I have uploaded a certain file to my uploads directory, to be able to then delete it by using the 'reset' button on the form and connecting this somehow to an unlink() function? I have seen on StackOverflow where they use a link to Delete here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4844382/php-delete-file-script but I can't get it to work either way, with a Delete link or what I think would be more sensible, just using Reset to empty the directory entirely. Any thoughts? Thanks! Vick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antonio Conte Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 This can absolutely be done via GET. What you would do is using IDs as the get value. Save the filenames to an array on the form ID => "name". You then build links the same way, but with ?remove=$ID. You cast $_GET['id'] to an integer, find the filename in array by using the ID, build a full path where you add the filename, then use unlink() to delete the file. An easy way to do this would be something like: $handle = ""; // open file $file_array = array(); // The file names while ( ($file = readdir($handle)) !== false ) { if ($entry != "." && $entry != "..") { $file_array[] = $file; } // Read files to array } // Simple delete if ( ! empty($_GET) ) { $upload_dir = "uploadsDirectoryHere/"; // Upload dir $file_id = (int) $_GET['delete']; // File_array ID // Make sure file is found if ( array_key_exists($file_id, $file_array) ) { $delete_file = $upload_dir . $file_array[$file_id]; // Make sure file exists if ( file_exists($delete_file) ) { unset(file_array[$file_id]); // Remove from file array unlink($delete_file); // Actually delete file here } } // Print out file names and links for deleting them foreach ( $file_array as $id => $filename ) { echo $filename . '<a href="page.php?delete='.$id.'">Delete file</a>; } Not tested, but that should be the basic idea. Sorry about errors/etc. Beginning to get tired here. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegasvikk Posted November 30, 2012 Author Share Posted November 30, 2012 Thank you so very much for helping me out, Antonio. I will try this out right away. Cheers, Vick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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