Gossamer Forum: Products: DBMan: Customization: How to Delete an associated file

You're using the file upload mod, right?

There's a section in the mod where you would edit sub delete_record to delete a file that has the same name as the record:

Code:
if ($delete_list{$data[$db_key_pos]}) {         # if this id is one we want to delete 
  $delete_list{$data[$db_key_pos]} = 0;         # then mark it deleted and don't print it to the new database. 
  if ($db_upload) { 
    $ALLOWED_EXT =~ s/\\.//g; 
    $ALLOWED_EXT =~ s/\$//g; 
    @extensions = split (/\Q|\E/o,$ALLOWED_EXT); 
    foreach $extension (@extensions) { 
      (-e "$SAVE_DIRECTORY/$data[$db_key_pos].$extension") &&  
(unlink "$SAVE_DIRECTORY/$data[$db_key_pos].$extension") 
    } 
  } 
} 
else { $output .= $line . "\n"; }

Instead of the above, use

Code:
if ($delete_list{$data[$db_key_pos]}) {         # if this id is one we want to delete 
  $delete_list{$data[$db_key_pos]} = 0;         # then mark it deleted and don't print it to the new database. 
  unlink "$SAVE_DIRECTORY/$data[5]"; 
} 
else { $output .= $line . "\n"; }

This, of course, assumes that $SAVE_DIRECTORY holds the path to your file directory and that the field with your filename is field 5. Make changes as appropriate.

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JPD