Question

Using Symfony 1.4.5 with Doctrine

I have a model which includes an uploaded image as one of the columns – creating and updating the record is fine (using the doSave() method to deal with the upload and any changes to the file).

The problem I’m having is if the record is deleted – I want it to remove the associated file as well. But I can’t find anyway to do this after several hours of hunting through documentation and Google.

Is there a way to specify some kind of post-delete code?

Answer 1

Final solution:

in /lib/model/doctrine/Image.class.php

class Image extends BaseImage
{
  public function postDelete()
  {
    $filename = $this->getFilename();

    $filepath = sfConfig::get('sf_upload_dir') . '/' . $filename;
    @unlink($filepath);
  }
}

Thanks to Colonel Sponz for pointing me in the right direction