Question

I have an administration panel that has a page allowing the administrators to delete rows from the database. Each row they can delete has an associated image stored in a directory on the server. The image path is stored in the database as well.

What I need is when a user deletes a row from the table, I would like it to delete the image as well.

Here is my PHP to delete the row from the table:

include('includes/temp.config.php'); 


    if (isset($_GET['id']) && is_numeric($_GET['id']))
    {
            // get the 'id' variable from the URL
            $id = $_GET['id'];

            // delete record from database
            if ($stmt = $link->prepare("DELETE FROM templates WHERE id = ? LIMIT 1"))
            {
                    $stmt->bind_param("i",$id);     
                    $stmt->execute();
                    $stmt->close();
            }
            else
            {
                    echo "ERROR: could not prepare SQL statement.";
            }
            $link->close();

            // redirect user after delete is successful
            header("Location: edit.php");
    }
    else
    // if the 'id' variable isn't set, redirect the user
    {
            header("Location: edit.php");
    }

But I don’t even know where to start to delete the associated image… Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

How about the unlink function?