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Dimitri
Dimitri

Reputation: 1976

Unlink PHP prermissions denied

I'm having some trouble with the unlink function.

I use this to create my directory:

$customer_path_files =  $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. '/'.$job.'/';
if (!file_exists($customer_path_files)) {

    @mkdir($customer_path_files ,0777,true);


}

This works great. The problem is when I try to delete the exact same folder using unlink. It says that I don't have permissions to do so.

public function deleteFolders($path) {
    $result = FALSE;

    if(file_exists($path)) {
        $result = unlink($path);
    } else {
        $result = true;
    }

    return $result;
}

Which is the code I'm using to delete the folders and all subfolders but doesn't work. Now, when I create folders manually, unlink works perfect under every condition.

I'm running on XAMPP in Windows 8.

Any thoughts?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 56

Answers (1)

Justin Wood
Justin Wood

Reputation: 10061

unlink() will remove a file.

If you want to remove a directory, you will need to use rmdir()

if (!is_dir('examples')) {
    mkdir('examples');
}

rmdir('examples');

Upvotes: 1

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