unlink
Description
The unlink of Filesystem for PHP deletes a file.
Syntax
unlink(
string $filename,
?resource $context = null
): boolParameters
filename
Path to the file.
If the file is a symlink, the symlink will be deleted. On Windows, to delete a symlink to a directory, rmdir() has to be used instead.
context
A context stream resource.
Return
Returns true on success or false on failure.
Examples
1 · filename
<?
$filename = 'unlink.txt';
$mode = 'a';
$stream = fopen($filename, $mode);
$data = 'data';
fwrite($stream, $data);
fclose($stream);
$return = unlink($filename);
var_export($return);
?>true
2 · context
<?
$filename = 'unlink.txt';
$mode = 'a';
$stream = fopen($filename, $mode);
$data = 'data';
fwrite($stream, $data);
fclose($stream);
$context = stream_context_create();
$return = unlink($filename, $context);
var_export($return);
?>true
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- disk_free_space
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- file_exists
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- fputs
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- ftell
- ftruncate
- fwrite
- glob
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- is_executable
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- is_uploaded_file
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- is_writeable
- lchgrp
- lchown
- link
- linkinfo
- lstat
- mkdir
- move_uploaded_file
- pathinfo
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- popen
- readfile
- readlink
- realpath
- realpath_cache_get
- realpath_cache_size
- rename
- rewind
- rmdir
- set_file_buffer
- stat
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