I have the following section of code in one of my pages:

PHP Code:

 if((file_exists($fileNamePath))&&(file_exists($thumbPath)))
                {
                    echo 'Filename is '.$fileName.'<br> Thumb is '.$thumb;
                    echo '<p>Filename path '.$fileNamePath.' would be deleted.<br> Thumb path '.$thumbPath.' would be deleted.';
                    
                    $fileNameDel = unlink($fileNamePath);
                    $thumDel = unlink($thumbPath);
                } 


Its supposed to assign the unlink functions to 2 variables to that they can be called later.

But it just deletes them without them even being called! I thought they should only get deleted if I were to use some code such as:

PHP Code:

if($fileNameDel) { code goes here } 


etc.

Does anyone know what I should do to solve it? Ive had similar problems in the past.

You cannot store a future call to a function in a variable...
What you do here, is that you store the returned value of the command you called, which is either TRUE or FALSE, depending if the file could be deleted or not.

Call the function when you need it, or create a "wrapper" function that you will call later.

PHP Code:

function myDel($file, $thumb){
  $ret=false;
  $ret=unlink($file);
  if($ret===TRUE){
    $ret=unlink($thumb);
  }
  return $ret;
} 


Ahhh thanks