RE: [PHP] Unlink question more or less

You can't use wildcards. Use a system() or exec() call to do it. Why use the datetime part at all? The usernames are unique, right? ---John Holmes... > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Ray [mailto:tom@blazestudios.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:06 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Unlink question more or less > > I want to use unlink() to delete a wildcard, but at the moment I keep > getting parse errors. Here's what happening: > > I'm mucking around with some login stuff, when a user logs in it writes > a flat file that collects some information about them, the flat file is > created with the name username.dateyeartime Now each time they log in I > want to delete that file and replace it with the new file that has the > latest dateyeartime ending on it. I've tried unlink (username.*); but > that returns an error. Is there a way for unlink() to recongize > wildcards? If not how would I do this? > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php