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deleting a file onclick


dmikester1

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HTML File:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function deleteFileAjax(filename) {
scriptitem = document.createElement('script');
scriptitem.type = 'text/javascript';
scriptitem.src = 'ajax.php?filename=' + filename;
scriptitem.id = 'ajax';
document.body.appendChild(scriptitem);
setTimeout('document.body.removeChild(document.getElementById("ajax"))', 500);
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<a href="javascript:deleteFileAjax('log.txt');">Delete</a>
</body>
</html>

 

Ajax.php

<?php
if (isset($_GET['filename'])) {
  if (unlink(htmlentities($_GET['filename']))) {
    echo "alert('Great success!');";
  }
}
?>

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Awesome!  Thank you, sneamia.  It worked.  Now one more question for you.  Instead of popping up an alert to say "file deleted."  Can I have it just pop text on the page that the file was deleted using ajax like how gmail or facebook works.

Thanks

Mike

 

Yes you could, though it would be a bitch to code without the source to your site.

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