PHP :: Delete File Contents

Delete Row From Mysql Only Deletes The Contents?
mysql_query("DELETE FROM cart WHERE ItemId=$ItemId");

There is the code but the result in my databse is that the ID number changes
from, lets say, 77 to 78 with 78's contents being empty. Therefore when I
look at the results - the deleted ID77 is gone but now I have ID78 with no
content!

Does anyone know why and how do I make it stop?

Script To Connect To Delete Contents Of A POP3 Mailbox
I have written a PERL script that I can run through bash, that will take in a mail server address, username and a password, login and then delete all of the mail contained within the user's mailbox.

Now I've battled to create a web interface so that my non-linux colleages can use easily wherever they happen to be, but just cannot get to work.

So, I decided it would be easier to use PHP to create the script and use $_POST to grab the address, username and password from a form and then process the connection/deletion.

Output Variable Contents In Htm File From Php File
I have a PHP file. No MYSQL database. I'd like to have it open an .htm file and output the results in the php file to the .htm template. So, for example say there is a bunch of variables called:

$make
$model
$year

I want to open a .htm file and output the contents of $make, $model & $year in the htm format using variables in the htm itself. ie. {make} {model} {year} and it would import the contents of each into the corresponding tag.

Download File And Delete File From Server With One Button Click
I want the user to be able to download a CSV file and delete the file from the server all with the click of a button. Currently, in firefox, it will just display the CSV and not delete it. In IE, it will download the CSV and not delete it. Code:

File Get Contents()
I need to verify, (working on the HTML section of a mailer), If in my php.ini: allow_url_fopen is On Will file_get_contents(file URL) called as follow:

$mailer->Body = str_replace('{MEMBER_NAME}', $member_name, file_get_content($htmlBody) );

Allows the file to become my email body? where $htmlBody comes from the DB...

Getting The Contents Of A File.
Is it possible to get the contents of a file; display the contents in a textbox; and edit the contents of that file. Then click a button and change the contents to the new updated file.

The reason I want to know this is because I have programmers on my site and I don't want them to have access to the FTP or cPanel. They will jus enter the name of the file, click submit, be able to edt and replace that file. All without FTP or cPanel.

File Put Contents
looking to write to a file with out overwriting the previous data? is there a way to turn overwrite off with the file put contents?? im trying to keep a log of form data.

File Get Contents
i am trying the example of get_file_contents but i get the following error.

what i want to do is get all the web page of google but the code wont work any ideas please cheers.

Warning: file_get_contents() expects at most 2 parameters, 5 given in

<?php
$content=file_get_contents("http://www.google.com",FALSE,NULL,0,20);
echo $content;
?>

Deleting Contents In File With PHP
Hi, I need to get to a specific part of the file and delete a line so i can overwrite it with a new value. Example ...

$Money = array(
0 => 10000,
1 => 932394,
2 => 3254#<Money>
);

I need to change first choice "0 => 10000" and replace it with "0 => 7500" so it seems like they spent 2500 moneys I dunno if its possible but if it is please help, and thanks in advance FYI, the file is called testfile.inc and i dunno what that .inc means :P I just got it from a script i downloaded Further more, i want to do this change/replace through a form or a click using PHP.

File Get Contents Issue.
In folder WWW i have text file named news.txt. I'm calling file_get_contents("news.txt"); form index.php in the same folder. I got error:

Warning: file_get_contents(news.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/www/index.php on line 14.

File Get Contents - Timeout
I Have googled and founds lots of references and examples of stream_set_timeout for fsockopen, but none showing how you apply a timeout to file_get_contents which I need to use in this case.

Can anyone give me a sample of how to set a timeout on file_get_contents, as I understand that it can be applied to all PHP streams?

This does not timeout after 2 seconds:

$url ="http://www.mydomain.com";
stream_set_timeout($contents, 2);
$contents = file_get_contents($url, false);
Print $contents;

File Get Contents() Error
I made a PHP5 script that uses the file_get_contents() funtion and when I run the script, I get this error:

Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration

I called my host up and they said that it is a coding error, not a security or server error,

Here is the code:

<?php
$address = "http://www.example.com";
echo htmlspecialchars(file_get_contents($address));
?>

Put Contents Of XML File Into An Array
I need some way to generate an array that holds the same structure and data of a xml file.

File Get Contents .limitation?
See this simple file_get_contents code

<?php
$link= 'http://www.example.com'
$content=file_get_contents($link);
echo $content;
?>

I tried the code with these links:

1. http://www.example.com (...worked OK. Also tried google.com, yahoo.com,... all OK.)

2. http://www.example.com/buy/chess (...$content captured an error page instead of the result)

3. http://www.example.com/chessmotifs (...$content returned nil, ... totally nothing. This is the one I need the code to work btw.)

Could this be because the site (in this case cafepress) uses some sort of scripts to generate their sub-pages? If yes, is there an alternatif method to "file_get_contents" that allows a page to generate fully before capturing?

Reading File Contents
I am parsing a file delimited by |. For some
reason the content is displayed to the browser properly - but the loop
is consistenlty outputting "one more row" of just the titles.
Perhaps I'm going about it completely wrong:

<?php

$filename = 'books.file'
$fp = fopen("$filename", "r");

while (!feof ($fp)) {
$contents[] = explode("|", fgets($fp, 4096));
}
fclose ($fp);
$loop=1;
foreach ($contents as $row) {
echo "$loop ------------------- ";
echo "Reviewer: $row[0] ";
echo "Date: $row[1] ";
echo "Title: $row[2] ";
echo "Author: $row[3] ";
echo "Rating: $row[4] ";
echo "Comments: $row[5] ";
$loop++;
}

echo "<a href="bookreview.html">Insert a new book review</a>";

?>

If File Contents Equals
I'm trying to create a script that will check the contents of the file and will display a certain message if it does equal the correct value. How would I go about checking a files contents? I tried

if (readfile("$file1") == "144.173.19.121") {
echo "your ip";
} else {
echo "doesn't work";}

File Contents To Variables
I have a file populated with information formated as on many lines:

date: person:id:info:info2

please note that : is the seperater. How can I get this data into variables:

$date:$person:$id:$info:$info2

I can open the file, display it's contents, even take the : out of it with this code I got from php.net: PHP Code:

Reading Zip File Contents
say i have a zip file - test.zip - with a file - somefile.txt - in it,
whose contents are as follows:

this is a test

when i try running the following script on the above zip file, i get
everything i should be getting, save for the contents of somefile.txt
(example output follows the script):

<?
$filename = 'test.zip'
if (($temp = zip_open($filename))) {
while ($entry = zip_read($temp))
if (preg_match('/.txt$/',zip_entry_name($entry))) {
print "file name = '".zip_entry_name($entry)."'
";
print "file size = '".zip_entry_filesize($entry)."'
";
print "contents = '".zip_entry_read($entry)."'
";
}
zip_close($temp);
}

?>

the output is as follows:

file name = 'somefile.txt'
file size = ཊ'
contents = ''

the output i would like and expect is as follows:

file name = 'somefile.txt'
file size = ཊ'
contents = 'this is a test'

Need To Read The File Contents
I have a small problem.i need to read the file contents from the url.here is the desc of the problemthe file(local file with compelte path) name should pass thru url(no file upload option)so i need to read that file and store that content in the databasehere is the examplehttp://example.com/read.php?file="D://text.txt"Once i enter this url in the browser, i need to read that text.txt file and store the content of text.txt into DB.

Open File And Get Contents
I need to open a file and then echo the contents into a text area. I tried file_get_contents(), but it doesn't work, it isn't recognised as a function..

Any other way of doing this?

How To Append A Flv File Contents To Another Flv File.
Could u pls helpe me how to append a flv movie file to another flv movie file.

How Do I Open A Dir And Print The Contents Of Each File?
i can do it in perl with this

$dirtoopen = "./database/";
opendir(DIR, "$filetoopen") or die "cannot open";
@files = readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);

foreach $file(@files){
$filetoopen = "./database/$file";
open(FILE, "$filetoopen") or die "cannot open";
$contents = <FILE>;
close(FILE);
($addonname, $description, $submitter) = split(//, $contents);
print "$addonname | $description";
}

but how would i with php?

Overwrite File To Update Contents
I'm hoping someone can help me figure this little problem i am having with the following PHP script... i have registration form that a person can use to sign up for email, and when they submit there information, i have a script that is suppose to write to a text file the username and email address...
however, is there a way to delete the contents of the text file or overwrite it completely with all the usernames and email addresses in the database(which was already there to begin with) plus the new person's username and email address???? the idea here is to have the most current info from the database be written to the text file when someone signs up for email...
the following code snippet is the code that is suppose to place the new user's username and email address...

Displaying Contents Of A Text File?
I'm trying grab the content of a text file and print it a web page. I believe that I should be using something along the lines of "file" or "fopen", but I'm not having any luck. Any thoughts or tips?

Basic File Get Contents Errors
I'm a newbie and have been learning PHP on and off for a while now.
I am trying to rebuild my website after my host dissapeared along with all my sites data, and I am very nearly 100% complete to the point prior to data loss.

However, one of the pieces of code written by another programmer is simply baffling me at the moment, and I think it may be due to the fact the code was badly written for a much older version of PHP compared to the version the site is on now with my new host etc

The code should be searching for images from one of my suppliers websites but it runs and does nothing at all...I have checked the suppliers URL's and they match the code so what is going on here....am I missing something really simple?

Printing The Contents Of Each File In A Directory
I've been trying to create a PHP page that reads each file in a directory (txt, for example), and then outputs the contents of the file. The purpose for this is for someone advertising products for a website, so that he can use a form to describe the product, and then saves each entry as a new txt file.

I then want the php to print the contents of the file. I've set it up so that it is html code, so formatting is not an issue.

I've figured out how to read the contents of a single file, using file_get_contents. I can also display each file NAME from the directory. However, when I add file_get_contents into the loop, the php script wont run.

Here's what I have so far:

<?php

 $handle = opendir('sales');

if($handle)
{
 while(false !== ($file = readdir($handle)))
 {
print "$file ";

$contents = file_get_contents($file);
print "$contents ";
 }
closedir($handle);
}?>

I've tried using seperate php entries and also had a play with readf and such, but can't seem to get anything to work. It seems like a common thing to want to do, and I've probably just made a small mistake somewhere?

Place File Contents Into Table On Page
Hi all. Am new to PHP and trying to get the following to work. I dont know if it is possible at all, and would appreciate any help.

I have a folder called Books. It contains an htm page called books.htm which has some graphic elements on it. It also contains a file (either excel or csv, or tab delimited.... whichever will work best in this situation). This file contains two columns. 1st colums-1st row contains an image name (e.g. alice.gif). And the 2nd column-1st row contains a text discripition (e.g. Alice in Wonderland....bla bla..). And so on for the next rows. The folder also contains the actual 'alice.gif' and all images that are listed in the 1st column.

What i am trying to achive is thus:-
When the books.htm page is called. I want the table in the file to be recreated on the page under the existing graphic elements. In that table, instead of the image names in the first column, i want the actual image (which is present in that folder), to be planted there in that specific cell on the htm page!

Read A Text File Where Contents Are Going Over 2 Lines
I have this code to read the contents of a text file: PHP Code:

Read The Contents Of A Text File Into MySql Using PHP
New to this, have the basics, can build a form and such. My problem is I
need to be able to open a file on a pc/s on the network, read the data
character by character, check to see if a certain character is present, if
it is, update the database and continue reading the file until it comes
across the character again, updates the database and so on . . . .

Delete File
I want to delete a file that is located on a server. The filename is in a Mysql database and now I have to put the line 'system("del c:apachehtdocsshopimg.gif");' somewhere in my code underneath. Any Idea how ? This line works already, but now the '.GIF' has to become a $file that equals the filename from the database...

What Is The Best Way To Delete File ...?
I have script that allows a user to upload a txt file for processing, filtering, to save bandwidth,instead of user reuploading the file everytime he/she does a new process on the same file, i save the file to the server, and process from that file. What I want to be able to do is, when the user uploads a new file, or leaves the site, this temp file is automatically deleted (saves disk space).

Delete File();
I was wondering if php4 has a built in function that could delete a file. In my case I need my php to delete a picture. (jpg, gif) Does php4 have the ability to delete an exsiting file? Something like this?? delete_image("../images/somePic.jpg");

Delete A File
How do i delete a file from my server with php?

Delete File
Is there any way to use PHP to delete an external file?

Delete File
How do I delete a file with PHP?

Delete File With Php
Im a little new in php, and just made a site where u can upload pictures, but how can i make it possible to delete pictures as well.

File Get Contents Does Not Work When Reading Pages From 'mydomain.com'
Working on Linux, I created this script:
---
$url = "http://www.mydomain.com";
$html = @file_get_contents($url, "r") or die("Can't open URL");
echo $html;
-----

This script:
- works ok on my PC box (PHP 4.4.5) with 'http://www.google.com'
- works ok on my PC box (PHP 4.4.5) with 'http://www.mydomain.com'
- works ok on my server (PHP 4.4.2) with 'http://www.google.com'
- DOES NOT work on my server (PHP 4.4.2) with 'http://www.mydomain.com'

Does anybody have any tip to find out why I can't read 'http://www.mydomain.com' on my server? Must I modify something on my 'mydomain.com' server (I manage it)?

Using Php To Delete A File In A Directory- Help
I can use php to execute the cp command to copy an image file into a directory.

Now I want to delete images in that directory if they are not named "picturelink.gif" when an entry with a corresponding id is deleted.

Below is the code I am using which doesn't seem to be working when it comes to deleteing the file. The directory has the correct permissions for read/write access.

$query = "DELETE FROM $userstable WHERE id ='$id' ";

if($picture != "picturelink.gif")
{
exec("rm $picture /virtualhosts/capefearantiques.com/www/pictures/$picture");
}

Delete Lines From File:
How to delete $n first lines from $str if i know how much lines shuld remain in the string?

$str = "aaaaaaaaa
bbbbbbbb
ccccccccc
ddddddddd
...
zzz";

Can it be done easly with preg_replace? (i.e without splitting it by '', removing elements from array and joining tham back.

How Do You Delete A File From A Listing Please?
I have the code:

<?php
if ($dir = @opendir("../project/proj_images")) {
while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false)
if($file != ".." && $file != ".")
echo "<tr><td align="left" class="bodyblue2">$file</td></tr>";
closedir($dir);
}
?>

which displays a list of files in a directory.

What I want, is to be able to click on a file in the list and delete it.

I know you use unlink but how do you tie it in with the above code?

Can I Delete A File From A PHP Script?
Is it possible to delete a file(a jpg in fact) from a PHP script. I would like to ad this functionality to an existing script that deletes a record from a MySQL db. Only the image name is stored in the db.

Trying To Delete A File Using Unlink
i am trying to delete a file using the unlink function but it just is not working. i just get the Could not delete message. Is there anyway to find out exactly what is wrong? I've tried the exact path which is C:/domain/wwwroot/temp/0000000.txt but it just does not delete. Also i dont think it can be related to permissions because the 0000000.txt was created automatically by a script. The code i used is as follows:

<?
$delete = unlink("C:/domain/wwwroot/temp/0000000.txt");

if($delete)
{
echo "Succesfully Deleted";
}
else
{
echo "Could not Delete";
}
?>

How Do You Delete A Zip File From A Directory?
Once again, I thought my class method deleteZip() would do the trick,
but it never deletes any .zip* file found in a directory: Code: ( php )

Php File Delete Form
How would i go about making a file delete form in php. so that the user can delete .jpg and .gif files from a web directory.

How To Delete Last Line Of File
I have a flat file on the server which I append to from a HTML web form.
I need to delete the last line of the flat file before I append though.

How do i do that?

I have the following code. I'm not sure if it's correct.

$pattern = "</member>"; // what I want to look for.
$ora_books = preg_grep($pattern, file('/path/to/your/file.txt'));

How Can I Have Permissions To Delete A File?
How can I have permissions to delete a file? example: I have to delete a file, but I don't to public users have permission to delete that file but, with a certain "login" they can.

Delete Lines From A File
Can someone show how I open a file and delete everything in it except for the last 20 lines.

How To Delete N Lines From The Top Of A File?
I'm not sure how to do this in php - need to calculate and delete an unspecified
number of lines from the *top* of a file.

<?php
//append $visitor to the bottom of $visdata
$fp = fopen($visdata,"a");
fwrite($fp, "
".$visitor;)
//count the lines in $visdata
$lines = count($visdata);
if $lines > 10
{
//delete as many lines off the top as necessary
//to end up with 10 lines total in $visdata
}
fclose($fp);
?>

Delete File Contents

Can someone post some code to show me how to delete a file from a folder please? I need to delete a file first, and then upload something in it's place. Maybe a bit of code to slide in what i have already would work? Code: