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Posted by comp.lang.php on 10/11/06 14:39
petersprc@gmail.com wrote:
> To expand a wildcard pattern, try the glob function. unlink isn't able
> to handle wildcards. For instance:
>
> $zips = glob("$theDir/*.zip");
> if ($zips === false) {
> die("glob failed.");
> }
> foreach ($zips as $zip) {
> unlink($zip) or die("unlink failed.");
> }
Thanx but how efficient is that? You could be looping through a
directory potentially containing thousands of images within my
application each time you display a list of them
>
> comp.lang.php wrote:
> > Once again, I thought my class method deleteZip() would do the trick,
> > but it never deletes any .zip* file found in a directory:
> >
> > [PHP]
> > /**
> > * Delete any latent ZIP files found in this album. This method is to
> > be inherited by all listing classes to allow for
> > * list-wide deletion of latent server-created ZIP files for security
> > purposes
> > *
> > * @access private
> > * @see actual_path
> > * @see is_class
> > */
> > function &deleteZip() { // STATIC VOID METHOD
> > global $section, ${$section . 'LocationPath'}, $projectFullName;
> > $album = $_REQUEST['album'];
> > $locationPath = ($album) ? "${$section . 'LocationPath'}/$album" :
> > ${$section . 'LocationPath'};
> > if (@!is_class($this->dbAP, 'DBActionPerformer')) $this->dbAP =& new
> > DBActionPerformer(); // LOCAL INSTANTIATION UNLESS ALREADY EXISTING
> > if (!$_ENV['windir']) { // UNIX VERSION
> > $statMsg = exec("stat \"" . actual_path($locationPath) . "/*.zip*\"
> > 2>&1"); // USE UNIX CHECK 'stat' FOR LOCATING ANY ZIP FILES, DO
> > DELETION IF AT LEAST 1 FOUND
> > } else { // WINDOWS VERSION
> > list($lsKommand, $lsRedirect) =
> > @array_values($this->dbAP->getKommandOSArray('ls'));
> > $statMsg = exec("$lsKommand \"" . actual_path($locationPath) .
> > "/*.zip*\" $lsRedirect");
> > }
> > if (@!unlink(actual_path($locationPath) . '/*.zip*') &&
> > !preg_match('/no such file/i', $statMsg)) { // WEB SERVER CANNOT
> > DELETE ZIP FILES
> > list($removeKommand, $removeRedirect) =
> > @array_values($this->dbAP->getKommandOSArray('rmdir-force'));
> > $msg = exec("$removeKommand \"" . actual_path($locationPath) .
> > "/*.zip*\" $removeRedirect"); // ALLOW FOR THE SERVER ITSELF TO
> > DELETE THEM
> > if (preg_match('/^rm:/i', $msg) || ($_ENV['windir'] && $msg))
> > die("$projectFullName shut down due to security issue with
> > potentially damaging ZIP file in \"$locationPath\", please contact
> > administrator<p>Error: $msg");
> > }
> > }
> >
> > [/PHP]
> >
> > This is what happens:
> >
> > [quote]
> > statMsg = stat: cannot stat `/www/html/tools/app/images/doom/*.zip*':
> > No such file or directory
> > [/quote]
> >
> > um, sorry but there *IS* at lease 1 zip file in
> > /www/html/tools/app/images/doom called images_of_doom.zip that is
> > auto-generated and does exist when I do "ls -l" via command line,
> > permissions of 0644.
> >
> > How do I delete it and any other ZIP file, plain and simple, I thought
> > this would work and it doesn't, please help
> >
> > thanx
> > phil
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