After my script finishes I can delete the file, but while it's running I can't touch it, even after an fclose(). Here is the code I'm trying to use: $Files = glob("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/files/*...

I have a basic cache system setup which saves a file based on the parameters in the url so that if that page gets viewed again it accesses the static file. eg if my url is http://www.example.com/f...

Win32's CreateFile has FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE, but I'm on Linux. I want to open a temporary file which will always be deleted upon program termination. I could understand that in the case of a ...

In Unix, it's possible to create a handle to an anonymous file by, e.g., creating and opening it with creat() and then removing the directory link with unlink() - leaving you with a file with an in...

When I started searching for "How to delete a file in PHP" The solution I got almost everywhere is "unlink()" But in w3schools I met with another function named delete(). Here is that link delete(...

I am making an Android application that need to be able to push files onto a server. For this I'm using POST and fopen/fwrite but this method only appends to the file and using unlink before writi...

Whats the real different between these two commands? Why is the system call to delete a file called unlink instead of delete?

if ($zip->open($zipFile, ZipArchive::CREATE) !== TRUE) { (...) } else { $zip->addFile($tempDir.$fileName.".xls", $fileName.".xls"); // The array contains the directory structure of the f...

I am using Dropbox in my own app. Once I login, the tableview is displayed and every time I load that view, I go straight to the table view. But, my concern is, suppose different people are using t...

I'm seeing a few questions raised on this topic, but looking around I have not managed to find a solution, unfortunately. I'm running PHP5.3 with Apache2 on Windows Server 2008. A PDF file is cre...

$prefix = 'something_prefix'; unlink($prefix.'.*'); the code above is not working, but I see some code like this below works just fine unlink('*.jpg'); why? I am wonder is this going to work? ...

I have a few directories with some files in them: /test1/123.jpg /test1/124.jpg /test1/125.jpg /test2/123.jpg /test2/124.jpg I want to delete all except for /test1/124.jpg or /test2/124.jpg? I ...

I'm working on a php script, where I want to delete some files from a given folder using wildcard (*). I've found some working examples like this one, where unlink() and glob() function are used. ...

I've such a situation. I want to delete .wav file which is out of webroot directory , but I've defined in httpd.conf (apache) alias of this directory like "mp3" . this is working nicely, because I ...

I'm using UNLINK with PHP and AJAX. I know that in this way is very dangerous, because everyone can delete any files. But I need to use AJAX because I can't reload the page when I delete the files....

Is it possible to unlink a file from an SplFileObject? I don't see a method to close the underlying resource, and the file handle is private so one can't extend SplFileObject with that goal in min...

I'm trying to delete a picture (.jpg) from server after the first time showed. But the file is deleted (unlink();) before showed. I've already tried with sleep() but this only delay the loading and...

I have this code in my application, often run in race condition by severals users of my application clearstatcache(TRUE, $filepath); if(file_exists($filepath)) unlink($filepath); But, for this l...

Normally to change a symlink target one will first unlink the file and then re-creating the symlink with the new target path. However it will be assigned a new inode number. Maybe there is a priva...

Task: Cut or erase a file after first walk-through. i have an install file called "index.php" which creates another php file. <? /* here some code*/ $fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't op...