Php delete file from folder

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Hello,
How can i delete an image from folder images when i dont know the name of the image?
I have a project when in the admin page you can upload and delete images.
But my delete file only deletes images path from the database, how can i also delete the image itself from the folder?
Below is my code.
Thank you.

What I have tried:

<?php
  include("connect.php");

	$id =$_REQUEST['id'];


	// sending query
	mysqli_query($conn ,"DELETE FROM images WHERE id = '$id'")
	or die(mysqli_error());

  mysqli_query($conn ,"DELETE FROM profile_image WHERE id = '$id'")
	or die(mysqli_error());

  $name = mysqli_query($conn ,"SELECT * FROM images WHERE id = '$id'")
	or die(mysqli_error());

  $row= mysqli_fetch_array($name);
  $r = $row['image'];

  $path = "admin/images/$r";
  if(!unlink($path))
  {
    echo "Not Working";
  }
  else {
    header("Location: images.php?working");
  }


	header("Location: images.php");
?>

Posted 19-Jun-19 8:18am

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Updated 19-Jun-19 8:45am

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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-19T08:46:00

Quote:
delete file only deletes images path from the database

Before you execute this command, you need to delete the file from the web server too. At this moment you do have the file path, so just pass that to the PHP function that deletes the file. I would suggest doing this first,

PHP

$path = "admin/images/$r";
if(!unlink($path))
{
    echo "Not Working";
}
else {
    // execute the command from database now.
}

Once this line has been executed you lose the file path and you can no longer delete the file—unless you delete everything from the directory, or you capture it from your database backups; or an even stupid solution or deleting everything that doesn't have a link in the database, too bad of a solution!

PHP: unlink - Manual[^]