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Re: Nested PHP [message #184873 is a reply to message #184869] Wed, 12 February 2014 12:52 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> wrote:

> On 2/12/2014 5:13 AM, Adrian Tuddenham wrote:
>> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> wrote:
>>
[...]
>> How do you delete the file? I have tried a few 'obvious' (obvious to
>> me, that is) methods, but they don't seem to work. I initially tried
>> going down the temporary file route, but my inability to find a way of
>> deleting the files was one reason why I abandoned it.
>>
>
> Which is only one reason this is a bad way of doing it. But these were
> questions to point out problems with this method.
>
> BTW - to delete files, you use unlink(). See the documentation at
> www.php.net - it's the best reference around.

I found that function and tried it, but the file didn't seem to go away
- its name was still visible even after I updated the file listings in
my ftp program. Eventually I deleted it manually by ftp.

Perhaps I got something wrong or I didn't wait long enough before
checking; I'll try again.
>
>>
>>> But I also agree with you it sounds almost richard-ish.
>>
>> Sorry if my beginner's questions sound like that, but I have started
>> trying to teach myself php from a position of almost complete ignorance,
>> especially in the way servers work. My previous experience of using a
>> 'server', if you can call it that, was programming in AlgolW under
>> Multics on an ICL System 4 mainframe in the 1970s; what little
>> programming I have done since then has been on desktop machines.
>>
>> There are plenty of references to php on the Web, but using them to
>> learn a programming language is like trying to learn to drive a car by
>> reading detailed descriptions of the clutch pedal, the brake pedal and
>> the accelerator pedal.
>>
>> I feet I needed to read through a selection of easy-to-follow examples
>> of how real programmers solve real (straightforward) problems in the
>> world of php - but as these don't seem to be available in any sort of
>> collected form, I have turned to this group for guidance.
>>
>>
>
> Forget most of the web-based references. There's a lot more crap out
> there than there is good stuff. The best reference is the doc at
> www.php.net, as I said above. Other than that, I would highly suggest
> you visit your local book store. At least books have been through an
> editorial process, and in general are better. Sorry I don't have any
> specific ones to suggest; it's been a while since I've looked.
>
> Normally I also suggest your public library - but if it's like the one
> we have, the books will be several years old and way out of date for PHP.

I have put a visit to the bookshop on my shopping list for this
afternoon.

[OT]
Sadly, not all books now go through a worthwhile editorial process.
There was a recent glaring example published by Focal Press of a book
relating to the history of analogue electronics (which is one of my
specialities) full of utter nonsense. You couldn't really say the
statements contained 'errors', they were just complete gobbledeygook
made up by an author with no knowledge of the subject whatsoever.


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