How to unlink file from children dir of parent dir? PHP

Question

I want to unlink an image file from children dir of a parent dir. I developing this project in a director folder under my website (mysite/project) but when i complete the project i will move to another hosting package. Whic code i need use for stable running in all directories?

I get this error:

Warning: unlink(../../images/urunler/deneme-urun.jpg): No such file or directory in /home/admin/public_html/eticaret/admin/includes/updateproduct.php on line 120

My folder structure:

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$delete = unlink("../../images/products/".$img);

Answer 1

Before running unlink() command you can check the existence of the file to get rid of such error

$path = "../../images/products/".$img;
if (file_exists(path)) {   
    unlink($path)                        
}

Better is using the full directory path (absolute path). An example, let your project structure is

and your unlinking code is in script.php , then your can get full absolute path the following way

$path = __DIR__ . "/../../images/products/{$img}";
if (file_exists(path)) {   
    unlink($path)                        
}

Answer 2

1. as the script is run from " public_html/eticaret/admin/includes/ " you need to .. traverse back 3 directories to get to public_html which is a common ancestor folder for both image and script

2. according to your directory image your images are in public_html/myproject/images/products/ and according to error detailed in your comment you are trying to delete from images/urunler/ I assume urunler is the actual project name.

if the folder containg your images is urunler try $delete = unlink("../../../images/urunler/".$img); if the container folder is products try $delete = unlink("../../../images/products/".$img);

if that fails try using an absolute path instead of a relative path.

Answer 3

Thanks for all answers. I have a fault on this topic. Image name is xxx.jpg in my database but xxx.jpeg in the folder. but there is an interesting situation: if you have an image as .jpeg format, you can open on browser as .jpg format. I've tried a lot of methods to solve the above error, but I've found that. I using chrome browser now.

So i solved my problem yet :)