Renaming and Removing Files

Renaming and Removing Files

Removing Files
For renaming files, PHP has unlink() function to delete files.On a UNIX-like system the file will only be deleted if no programs have this file in use.

Example:

unlink(”file.txt”);

Renaming Files
- For renaming a file php has a a function rename()
- This function is automic which means that that nothing can interfere with this,and that it is always guaranteed not to be
interrupted.

Example
rename(’file1.txt’, ‘file2.txt’);

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