Question

I have an Upload model – contains images uploaded by the user.

Within the controller, I’m calling:

$this->Upload->delete($id);

Which works just fine to delete the record from the database, but I’d also like to delete the corresponding image file.

I’ve tried a lot of different things with different variables..etc, and found this link to a similar question, but – nothing seems to work – I can’t even get it to delete with any of these attempts:

//at the bottom of my Upload model
function afterDelete() {
    //NONE OF THESE WORK - is this even being called?
    unlink('/img/uploads/rest_logo.jpg');
    unlink('app/webroot/img/uploads/rest_logo.jpg');
    unlink('/app/webroot/img/uploads/rest_logo.jpg');
    unlink('img/uploads/rest_logo.jpg');
    unlink(WWW_ROOT . 'img/uploads/rest_logo.jpg');
    unlink(WWW_ROOT . '/img/uploads/rest_logo.jpg');
    return true;
}

Obviously I’ll want to change it to be a dynamic filename, but for now, I can’t even get it to delete the file when hard-coding all the different possible paths I can think of.

Is there a way to test what’s going on in this? Like an echo or… anything?

Any help or direction is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

App::uses('File', 'Utility');

// new File(string $path, boolean $create = false, integer $mode = 493) 
// $mode  = 493 default

$file = new File(WWW_ROOT . 'img/uploads/rest_logo.jpg', false, 0777);
if($file->delete()) {
   echo 'image deleted.....';
}

Detail about File Utility