PHP unlink() not working to delete files? - php

Question

PHP unlink() not working to delete files
my code is deleting in database properly but cant deleted from file how pls help me how to delete data in my uploaded file?
<?php
$id = $_POST['id'];
include_once('db.php');
$objDbCon = new db_connect();
$strSQL = "DELETE FROM study_material WHERE id='$id'";
$objQuery = $objDbCon->Query($strSQL);
unlink('../uploaded/');
if ($objQuery) {
echo "Delete Sucessfully";
} else {enter code here
echo "Error";
}
?>

Answer 1

Use this,
unlink($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']).'/projectname'.$filename);
where
$filename is ./folderuploads/filename.extension

Answer 2

unlink() is used to delete files and you try to delete directory using this function ('../uploaded/' is directory not a file). If you want to remove empty directory you need to use rmdir() function instead

Answer 3

The parameter for unlink() function must be a filename rather than a directory.

Answer 4

Try this code:
1:- select file from your table.
2:- unlink file from directory
3:- last delete row from table
unlink('../uploaded/filename');

Answer 5

It's important to make sure that the files/folders have the correct permissions also in addition to the other answers.
PHP usually runs as the user and so if you don't have the correct permissions to manage the file, you won't be able to do anything with it.
In SSH:
chown -R user:user /path/to/folder
This will set all of your files to the user PHP is using. Obviously replace user:user with root:root for example.