Re: Deleting a read-only file (Windows)
| From: | Lowell Allen | Date: | Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:01:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Deleting a read-only file (Windows) | ||
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> From: Neil Freeman <neil.freeman@asa.co.uk>
>
> I'm trying to delete a file using PHP's unlink() function (on Windows).
> This works fine on writable files but fails when trying to delete
> read-only files. How can I delete read-only files? Is there a function
> available to change the permissions?
>
I thought unlink() did not work on Windows. Notes in the manual suggest this
for Windows:
system("del name.ext");
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Lowell Allen