How to use Unlink() function

php file unlink
JLearner picture JLearner · Jul 13, 2012 · Viewed 52k times · Source

I'm trying to use PHP unlink() function to delete away the specific document in the folder. That particular folder has already been assigned to full rights to the IIS user.

Code:

$Path = './doc/stuffs/sample.docx';
if (unlink($Path)) {    
    echo "success";
} else {
    echo "fail";    
}

It keep return fail. The sample.docx does reside on that particular path. Kindly advise.

Answer

Marcio Mazzucato picture Marcio Mazzucato · Jul 13, 2012

I found this information in the comments of the function unlink()

Under Windows System and Apache, denied access to file is an usual error to unlink file. To delete file you must to change the file's owner. An example:

chown($tempDirectory . '/' . $fileName, 666); //Insert an Invalid UserId to set to Nobody Owern; 666 is my standard for "Nobody" 
unlink($tempDirectory . '/' . $fileName);

So try something like this:

$path = './doc/stuffs/sample.docx';

chown($path, 666);

if (unlink($path)) {
    echo 'success';
} else {
    echo 'fail';
}

EDIT 1

Try to use this in the path:

$path = '.'
         . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'doc'
         . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'stuffs'
         . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'sample.docx';

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