Deleting files with unlink()

To delete files, simply pass a filename string as the only parameter to unlink(). Note that unlink deals only with files - to delete directories you need rmdir().

<?php

      if (unlink($filename)) {

          print "Deleted $filename!\n";

      } else {

          print "Delete of $filename failed!\n";

      }
 ?>

Author's Note: if you have a file opened with fopen(), you need to fclose() it before you call unlink()

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