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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Symbolic Links Post 302359493 by TonyFullerMalv on Tuesday 6th of October 2009 06:10:45 PM
Old 10-06-2009
Or you may use:
Code:
$ unlink filename

to remove the symbolic link.
 

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EIO_READLINK(3) 							 1							   EIO_READLINK(3)

eio_readlink - Read value of a symbolic link.

SYNOPSIS
resource eio_readlink (string $path, int $pri, callable $callback, [string $data = NULL]) DESCRIPTION
PARAMETERS
o $path - Source symbolic link path o $pri -The request priority: EIO_PRI_DEFAULT, EIO_PRI_MIN, EIO_PRI_MAX, or NULL. If NULL passed, $pri internally is set to EIO_PRI_DEFAULT. o $callback -$callback function is called when the request is done. It should match the following prototype: void callback(mixed $data, int $result[, resource $req]); o $data -is custom data passed to the request. o $result -request-specific result value; basically, the value returned by corresponding system call. o $req -is optional request resource which can be used with functions like eio_get_last_error(3) o $data - Arbitrary variable passed to $callback. RETURN VALUES
eio_readlink(3) returns request resource on success or FALSE on error. EXAMPLES
Example #1 eio_readlink(3) example <?php $filename = dirname(__FILE__)."/symlink.dat"; touch($filename); $link = dirname(__FILE__)."/symlink.link"; $hardlink = dirname(__FILE__)."/hardlink.link"; function my_hardlink_cb($data, $result) { global $link, $filename; var_dump(file_exists($data) && !is_link($data)); @unlink($data); eio_symlink($filename, $link, EIO_PRI_DEFAULT, "my_symlink_cb", $link); } function my_symlink_cb($data, $result) { global $link, $filename; var_dump(file_exists($data) && is_link($data)); if (!eio_readlink($data, EIO_PRI_DEFAULT, "my_readlink_cb", NULL)) { @unlink($link); @unlink($filename); } } function my_readlink_cb($data, $result) { global $filename, $link; var_dump($result); @unlink($link); @unlink($filename); } eio_link($filename, $hardlink, EIO_PRI_DEFAULT, "my_hardlink_cb", $hardlink); eio_event_loop(); ?> The above example will output something similar to: bool(true) bool(true) string(16) "/tmp/symlink.dat" SEE ALSO eio_symlink. PHP Documentation Group EIO_READLINK(3)
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