How to get error result of unlink

Question

If a call to unlink() returns false for the specified path, how do you find out what the reason for the failure was (i.e. EISDIR, ENOENT, ELOOP etc.)? PHP 5.x running on redhat linux.

Answer 1

here's one way

unlink("/path/that/does/not/exist");
print_r(error_get_last());

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