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I’m letting members of a site upload images and audio files to entries (via safecracker), and also delete those entries with this plugin.

I’m a bit conscious that we’re going to build up more and more “orphaned” files on the server as entries are deleted but their files are left online. Does anyone know of a way round this?

Thanks, Frank

Good question.. this is an issue also when you delete an entry from the CP, any file associated with that entry will not be deleted (rightly so).
If you want to delete files you should do so before you delete an entry, but this is beyond the scope of this plugin.

Thanks Milo. Yep I thought that would be the case. I might try to write a script that compares all the entry uploads with the contents of the uploads folder and deletes any that don’t match up. Then we just run that script every so often…

@Frank, have you tried searching for an extension, module or plugin that allows you to do that without reinventing the wheel? Like, http://www.devdemon.com/channel_files for instance?  Or at least giving you a starting point to develop your script..

Hi,

I can’t seem to find any updated example templates anywhere for this plugin.

Thanks.

@EnergyFreak, examples are provided in the plugin file itself (pi.delete.php)

Frank, I found a roundabout way to do this using this plugin and PHP script. If anybody needs the details, feel free to PM me.

Does anyone know how to allow guests to delete entries without being logged in? Thanks!

I am having the same issue that Sean C. Smith posted about.

I want to allow users to delete their own comments, but I keep getting this message… 
Error: This content does not exist or has already been deleted.

Here is my link code…

{exp:delete:link id="{comment_id}" type="review" template="review/delete" alert="false"}Delete Review{/exp:delete:link}

And here is my template code…

{exp:delete:delete_comment comment_id="{comment_id}" message_success="Your Review Has Been Deleted"}

Does anyone see what I am doing wrong?

I had an issue with getting the plugin to use my template location so I tweaked it abit.

Don’t know if this will help anyone but it worked great for me.

Just replace the link function in pi.delete with this function below

// ----------------------------------------
//  Generate a delete link  
// ----------------------------------------
    public function link()
    {
        $template = $this->EE->functions->create_url($this->EE->TMPL->fetch_param('template') . "/" . $this->EE->TMPL->fetch_param('id'));

        if ( ! $this->EE->TMPL->fetch_param('id') OR  ! $this->EE->TMPL->fetch_param('template')) return "Invalid delete plugin usage.";

        $type = ($this->EE->TMPL->fetch_param('type')) ? $this->EE->TMPL->fetch_param('type') : $this->type;

        // create a js alert box?
        $alert = "";
        if ($this->EE->TMPL->fetch_param('alert') != "false") $alert = " onclick=\"[removed] if (!confirm('Are you sure you want to delete this $type?')) return false;\"";
        $link = "<a href="http://">" . $this->EE->TMPL->tagdata . "</a>";
  
        return $link;
    }

I am having the same issue that Sean C. Smith posted about.

I want to allow users to delete their own comments, but I keep getting this message… 
Error: This content does not exist or has already been deleted.

Here is my link code…

{exp:delete:link id="{comment_id}" type="review" template="review/delete" alert="false"}Delete Review{/exp:delete:link}

And here is my template code…

{exp:delete:delete_comment comment_id="{comment_id}" message_success="Your Review Has Been Deleted"}

Does anyone see what I am doing wrong?

The code you’ve got there is just fine. Open up the delete template and replace {comment_id} with the segment in the URL that is created through the delete link function. Something like this:

{exp:delete:delete_comment 
 comment_id="{segment_3}"
 error_no_permissions="You're not allowed to delete this comment" 
 error_invalid_content="It seems that this comment has been already deleted" 
 message_success="Comment deleted!"
}