Dynamically Delete Files?

I've built a content management system in PHP and MySQL using FCKEditor and CKFinder. Both of which work great!

Now, I would like to create a page where my client can add photo galleries. Each photo will be associated with a particular gallery in the database. But when my client deletes a gallery, I'd like to have CKFinder delete all files associated with that gallery?

Does that make sense?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Mon, 06/23/2008 - 08:50

wiktor

Joined: 16/07/2007

Posts: 1641

Re: Dynamically Delete Files?

http://docs.fckeditor.net/CKFinder/Serv ... ntegration

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Thu, 06/26/2008 - 15:48

chitch

Joined: 13/06/2008

Posts: 6

Re: Dynamically Delete Files?

Fri, 06/27/2008 - 15:43

wiktor

Joined: 16/07/2007

Posts: 1641

Re: Dynamically Delete Files?

Do you delete gallery from database manually? Otherwise, you may add a bit of code to your application that would simply delete selected folder.
Take a look at core\connector\php\phpX\Utils\FileSystem.php, there is a special unlink method that deletes a folder.

Adjust it to your needs and call it inside of your application, e.g.

function myunlink($path)
{
  /*    make sure the path exists    */
  if(!file_exists($path)) {
    return false;
  }

  /*    If it is a file or link, just delete it    */
  if(is_file($path) || is_link($path)) {
    return @unlink($path);
  }

  /*    Scan the dir and recursively unlink    */
  $files = scandir($path);
  if ($files) {
    foreach($files as $filename)
    {
      if ($filename == '.' || $filename == '..') {
        continue;
      }
      $file = str_replace('//','/',$path.'/'.$filename);
      myunlink($file);
    }
  }

  /*    Remove the parent dir    */
  if(!@rmdir($path)) {
    return false;
  }

  return true;
}

//example
if ( !myunlink("/path/to/dir") ) {
  echo "something went wrong, check permissions";
}
else {
  echo "folder deleted";
}

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