Comments on: PHP: Delete or unlink a file on the server

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 07:08:00 +0000

simple and to the point, would be good to maybe expand this to show you how to delete an entry in a sql database? i.e the path to the file as well as the file itself

By: Homesh

Homesh — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:46:00 +0000

well i have fix my problem…..

By: Dddd

Dddd — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:40:00 +0000

kus ke bachchey.. teri bhen ko chodu..

By: Kashif Webpro1

Kashif Webpro1 — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:14:00 +0000

Simple & easy

By: Tshepo

Tshepo — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:41:00 +0000

Hi every one, I would like to know, how can I delete a file from a server? My problem actually lies on the path that I must specify so that when I issue the unlink() function it is able to find the specific file I’m referring to and delete it right away.

By: good

good — Fri, 28 May 2010 03:11:00 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:47:00 +0000

Excellent tip! That solved my problem in four files, accidentally created on my webhost, these files were not deleted in any FTP client (windows, linux, etc) because you have “” caracter in the file name and received the message 550 prohibited filename. With this tip, the files had been removed!

By: Souvik Banerjee

Souvik Banerjee — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:08:00 +0000

What kind of advertisement is this… cant read the article… please remove it. or fix it.

By: Nitish

Nitish — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:24:00 +0000

hmmm…. good post…

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:36:00 +0000

Sometimes it’s a good idea to check if the file exists first, then you won’t get a PHP error if the file you’re trying to delete is not there. Just add a simple IF statement to accomplish this:

$tmpfile = “/full/path/to/delete-me.txt”;
if (file_exists($tmpfile)) { unlink ($tmpfile); }