unlink of “%s” failed, file does not exist¶

Description¶

PHP reports failure when trying to remove a file that does not exists in a phar archive. This error message does not appear when using the regular filesystem, or the delete method on a phar object.

This error message is part of the stream system.

Example¶

<?php

try {
    $phar = new Phar('/tmp/myphar.phar');
    $phar->addFromString('foo.txt', 'hello');
    unset($phar);

    $phar = new Phar('/tmp/myphar.phar');
    unlink('phar:///tmp/myphar.phar/oops');
} catch (Exception $e) {
    // handle errors
    print $e->getMessage();
}
?>

Literal Examples¶

unlink of “oops” failed, file does not exist

Solutions¶

Check if the file is available before removing it, with Phar::offsetExists.