php copy Not Working

[adder]

Hi,

I'm stuck with a short bit of code:

 copy($pngoldpth, $pngnewpth) or die("Unable to copy PNG.");
 delete("$pngoldpth");
 echo "PNG moved successfully";

The script dies even before it has a chance to get to the "die" bit :) I never get any output. Enabled all error messages - not a single warning or error message, just a blank screen.

I thought the folders had suddenly become not writable. Unlikely because my file upload script is working. Just in case tried this line:

echo ( is_writable($pngnewpth) ) ? 'writable' : 'not writable'; 

Also tried echoing the variables and I get the expected output from them. Is there something obvious that I'm missing? Please help.

[g1smd]

Look carefully at the value for the paths. Is it the full server path?

[adder]

@g1smd, thank you, it was a very good point.

No, I was actually using a relative path (also tried the actual www url) how silly :)

I now changed the variables to the full path (i.e. /servername/local/home/myname/mydomain.com/mydir/) and it copied the file ok. But wait, I'm celebrating too early. The delete function is now not working. The error message is:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function delete() in /servername/local/home/myname/mydomain.com/mydir/test.php on line 13

Any ideas why?

[adder]

oh, I actually replaced delete("$pngoldpth"); with unlink("$pngoldpth"); and it works fine. However, I'm still curious about the "delete" function! Is it not supported any more?

[rocknbil]

Was there ever one [php.net]?

This is a dummy manual entry to satisfy those people who are looking for unlink() or unset() in the wrong place.

You might find it more useful to use the DOCUMENT_ROOT environment variable where appropriate, making your app more portable:

$pngoldpth = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/mydir";