Warning when using Unlink!

[webnoob]

I am trying to delete a file and am getting this error message

Warning: unlink(Includes/Modules/News_Manager) [function.unlink]: Is a directory in /home/hvknuamn/public_html/mainbuild/Includes/Modules/Module_Manager/Module_Functions.php on line 35

This directory is the place I am calling the unlink function from, I dont understand why im getting this. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

p.s the file has correct permissions to delete and im not getting file not found, so it cant be that

[spikeZ]

afternoon

The script thinks you are trying to delete an entire directory, post your script...

[webnoob]

Hiya Mate,

I am

$filetodelete = "Includes/Modules/" . $deleteid . "_Manager";
unlink($filetodelete); 

$deleteid in this case is News

[spikeZ]

Is the News_Manager an actual file?
As it is the script is still assuming it's a directory called News_Manager.

You might be able to put a condition in using is_file() to check the file first.

[webnoob]

No its a directory. I want to just delete that folder and its contents

[php_daemon]

Or if you are actually trying to delete the directory, use rmdir. Just make sure it is empty before you do.

[spikeZ]

then do what php_daemon said
Youwill probably need to iterate through the dir first and delete the files and then delete the folder

[webnoob]

Yeh, thanks guys, I used this in the end:

foreach (glob("Includes/Modules/" . $deleteid . "_Manager/*.*") as $filetodelete) {

    unlink($filetodelete);

}
        
$dirtodelete = "Includes/Modules/" . $deleteid . "_Manager";
rmdir($dirtodelete); 

[spikeZ]

looks good to me! glad you got it sorted