Delete files which has the same prefix

Question

$prefix = \'something_prefix\';
unlink($prefix.\'.*\');

the code above is not working, but I see some code like this below works just fine

Answer 1

You can use glob for this. Something like this(didn't test it):

foreach (glob("something_prefix*.*") as $filename) {
    unlink($filename);
}

Answer 2

Try this code:

$mask = 'your_prefix_*.*';
array_map('unlink', glob($mask));

p.s. glob() requires PHP 4.3.0+