Unlink Groups of Files Based On ID

PHP
1

I have two tables:

Table: photo_gallery_cat
phcat_id: 1
category: Beautiful Estates

phcat_id: 2
category: Ugly Estates

Table: photo_gallery
pg_id: 1
phcat_id: 1
larg_img: lib_jog.jpg

pg_id: 2
phcat_id: 1
larg_img: wea_sel.jpg

What I would like to do is to be able to delete a set of images based upon a category selected from photo_gallery and also the ability to delete the category as well from the photo_gal_cat table.

This what I have so far:

$colname_getGallery = "-1";
if (isset($_GET['phcat_id'])) {
  $colname_getGallery = $_GET['phcat_id'];
		
mysql_select_db(myconnectionstuff);
$query_getGallery = sprintf("SELECT photo_gallery_cat.category,  photo_gallery.pg_id, photo_gallery.phcat_id, photo_gallery.larg_img FROM photo_gallery JOIN photo_gallery_cat ON photo_gallery.phcat_id = photo_gallery_cat.phcat_id WHERE photo_gallery.phcat_id = %s", GetSQLValueString($colname_getGallery, "int"));
$getGallery = mysql_query($query_getGallery, $CVconn) or die(mysql_error());
$row_getGallery = mysql_fetch_assoc($getGallery);
$totalRows_getGallery = mysql_num_rows($getGallery);

if (array_key_exists('cancel', $_POST)) {
	header('Location: list.php');
	exit;
}

if ((isset($_POST['phcat_id'])) && ($_POST['phcat_id'] != "")) {
  $deleteSQL = sprintf("DELETE FROM photo_gallery WHERE phcat_id=%s",
                       GetSQLValueString($_POST['phcat_id'], "int"));
																							unlink("../../photos/". $row_getGallery['larg_img']); 

  mysql_select_db($database_CVconn, $CVconn);
  $Result1 = mysql_query($deleteSQL, $CVconn) or die(mysql_error());

  $deleteGoTo = "delete_gallery_list.php";
  if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
    $deleteGoTo .= (strpos($deleteGoTo, '?')) ? "&" : "?";
    $deleteGoTo .= $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
  }
  header(sprintf("Location: %s", $deleteGoTo));
2

btw - I was assuming you only have 1 layer of categories in your data model.

If you have subdirectories as well then obviously you would also need to delete the images in all the sub directories of the category selected for deletion and the sub-directories as well (unless you promote them all by 1 level in your tree structure)

Deleting sub directories and their images is a simple task if you are using a nested set model as your data model.

3

I hope you got the latest code I posted.

I wrapped the original code in php code tags and got some weird “email=…” next to some of the @ chars.

I reposted the code wrapped in

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If you need more help, post back  :)
4

This demo will delete the image files from disk and the associated category records from the category and images tables.

I haven’t tested the code, but you should in general see what I am doing.

 
<?php
$catId = $_GET['phcat_id'];
 
$isCatDeleted = deleteCat($catId);
 
function deleteCat($catId) {
$catId = mysql_real_escape_string($catId,$conn);
 
//delete the image files from disk
$query = 'select larg_img from photo_gallery where phcat_id = "'.$catId .'"';
$rs = @mysql_query($query,$conn);
if(!rs) return false;
while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($rs)) {
      if(file_exists($row['larg_img'])) {
            unlink($row['larg_img']);
      }
}
@mysql_free_result($rs);
 
//now delete the records in the 2 tables
$query = 'delete from photo_gallery where phcat_id = "'.$catId .'"';
if(!mysql_query($query,$conn)) return false;
$query = 'delete from photo_gallery_cat where phcat_id = "'.$catId .'"';
if(!mysql_query($query,$conn)) return false;
return true;
}
?>
5

Thanks for your time, Kalon. I’ll look into this!