Still can't delete image via API. What's wrong??

[thomas]

Hello,

I have an imagefield set to limit=1 and I try to replace this image via the API:

$video->of(false);
$video->teaserbild->removeAll();
$video->save();

$video->teaserbild = 'http://new_image.jpg';
$video->save();

The result in the admin is a broken image (missing file) as the first image (which was supposed to be removed) and the new one intact as second.

I'm on PW 2.3.0. 

I've had this problem for a while and can't seem to solve it. Can someone help?

Thanks,

thomas

[adrian]

I think you want deleteAll() rather than removeAll() which works on WireArray, not on files/images.

Let us know if that solves your problem.

[thomas]

Hi Adrian,

thanks for the tip but unfortunately it doesn't change anything. I ran 

$video->of(false);
$video->teaserbild->deleteAll();
$video->save();

$video->teaserbild = 'http://new_image.jpg';
$video->save();

on a page with one image already uploaded and got this error:

<b>Warning</b>: unlink(/www/htdocs/v133155/bigair2/site/assets/files/51666/img_20131001_110155.jpg) [<a href='function.unlink'>function.unlink</a>]: No such file or directory in <b>/www/htdocs/v133155/bigair2/wire/core/Pagefile.php</b> on line <b>304</b><br />

and the result remains the same: 

(with the second one being the new one and the first (upper) one being the one that supposedly couldn't be deleted ...)

Any hints?

Thanks,

thomas

[adrian]

Is it possible that error is still there as a result of previous issues? I am wondering if the image is still in the field_images DB table, but not on the filesystem. I would try removing it from the database and see if that resets things.

[thomas]

Unfortunately no. I cleaned the image field before trying deleteAll()

[ryan]

I'm not aware of any bugs here, and I do these kinds of API replacement of images daily. But you might try and see if using the dev branch makes any difference here. Also it would be good to know of any modules you have installed in case anything is hooking into any of this.