Question

I have 3 folders in my root, “application”, “system”, and “uploads”. In application/controllers/mycontroller.php I have this line of code.

delete_files("../../uploads/$file_name");

The file does not get deleted and I have tried a number of pathing options like ../ and ../../../ any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

$file_name is a variable. You should concatenate it to your own string in order to execute the function:

delete_files("../../uploads/" . $file_name);

EDIT:

Make sure that this sentence:

echo base_url("uploads/" . $file_name);

Is echoing a valid path. If the answer is YES, try this:

$this->load->helper("url");
delete_files(base_url("uploads/" . $file_name));

Supposing that your “uploads” folder is in your root directory.

EDIT 2:

Using unlink function:

$this->load->helper("url");
unlink(base_url("uploads/" . $file_name));