Delete Image with PHP Script

[toneemontana]

I have a picture uploading form that loads up a picture with information about that picture.

I have a text file that contains a tabulated line containg specific information about each picture, this information is generated by a PHP script.

I have another PHP script that reads the text file, splits the line into different variables, and prints the information in a table. The last cell of each row has a red "X" to be used for deleting the image; this red "X" is what I am trying to make work.

I am trying to develop a PHP script that will read the text file, and mark the image to be deleted. My problem is that I don't know how to make the PHP script look for the right image once the delete button on the row is clicked. The PHP script is what generates the table, so the table tags are only printed once in the PHP script; I have a while loop that prints the information, and since the information is appended to the text file, the table grows a row each time a new picture is uploaded. How will my PHP delete script know which image to delete once the user clicks the "X" at the end of the row? Can someone shed some light on this subject?

[masonbarge]

This makes my head spin a little, LOL. Maybe it's because my immediate instinct to the basic process would not include making a text file. There's something I'm not following about the program structure.

Do you want a user to be able to "mark" a photo for deletion but keep control of the actual deletion? That's what I'm reading.

Here's one idea anyway. Have a boolean field default to 0. To display the form contents for the "mark for delete" function, query the database. Let the user, possibly, hit a radio button to change the boolean field to 1. Then you can have a separate administrative form, with delete permission, that shows all rows with delete=1.

[toneemontana]

This is absolutely driving me crazy. My text file lists all the data as it pulls from the uploading form I made. All the variables that I have listed in the uploading form are what I used to generate the text file, by writing into it like this:

fputs(V\t$forpic\t$date\t$time...etc.)

This writes the information into the text file. If the file is not an image file, the V at the front of the line becomes an X instead.

The other php script that writes all of the info into the table only prints a new row of the table if the V is in the beginning of the line in the text file.

My instructor wants me to read the whole file and replace the first character of the line with the picture I want to delete with an X. But how do I know which image I will be deleting when the delete button is a picture of a red x on my table page? How can I find out which image is in the row of the table where the red x has been clicked? There is a red x at the end of each row. Does this make sense?

[grahame]

My instructor wants me to ...

I expect that your instructor has a pretty good idea of what he/she is looking for you to do - so if your head is spinning, perhaps the best place to get clrification of the task would be from him / her ??