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Hello

I am in a bit bother at the moment, I have an application where I add a contact and at the same time I upload an image to the images directory.

Basically I have a feature where you can delete a contact and what I want to be able to do is to delete the image uploaded in the add contact section.

I have added the file name to the mysql database but havent included the directory. How do I go about deleting a file once the image has been uploaded based on the data in the contacts table which has the file name I want to delete.

If anyone could help it would be much appreciated.

Regards
Chris

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Firstly get the file name from the DB, then concat the directory name with the file name and then pass to the unlink() fucntion.
Suppose $dir variable is having the path to the directory and $file_name is having the file name returned from the DB ...

$dir = "../images";
$file_name = "image_name.jpg";
$complete_path = $dir."/".$file_name;
if(unlink($complete_path)){
      //Successfully deleted the file
} else {
      //File not deleted
}

Hope it helps!

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