unlink(): To delete a File

$path="images/all11.css";
if(unlink($path)) {
echo "Deleted file ";
}
File Delete We can delete files by giving its URL or path in PHP by using unlink command. This command will work only if write permission is given to the folder or file. Without this the delete command will fail.

Here is the syntax.
unlink($path);
We can check the path by using file_exists function to know if file is available for deletion. Here $path is the relative path of the file calculated from the script execution. We have used if condition to check whether the file delete command is successful or not. But the command below will not work.
$path="https://domainname/file/red.jpg";
if(unlink($path)) echo "Deleted file ";
The warning message will say unlink() [function.unlink]: HTTP does not allow unlinking.

We can suppress the warning message by adding a @ symbol before the unlink command .
Based on the success of the file delete command we can further execute our code by using if else code block.
$path="test.html";
if(@unlink($path)) {echo "Deleted file "; }
else{echo "File can't be deleted";}
Here we are deleting one file only. We can also delete all the files of a directory or selected files by using PHP.
Deleting database record linked to file.
The name of the file is stored in a table record. While deleting such file , first record is to be deleted ( if required ) and on success of deletion the respective file is to be deleted.

Deleting record with image from MySQL table

File Deleting all ( or by selection ) files of a directory Directory Functions
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    hariv21

    31-03-2010

    nice
    php

    29-09-2012

    amazing tutorils.... thanks
    bell

    16-07-2014

    how to generate a Multiple deletion method
    jamroz

    16-09-2014

    sir i make a page which delete a record but a file or image that are stored in the folder did not removed . How to remove from folder a picture using unlink()

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