failed to open stream: Permission denied in magento duplicate image removing code

[dhinakar]

<?php
include('app/Mage.php');
//Mage::App('default');
Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);
error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);
Mage::setIsDeveloperMode(true);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
ob_implicit_flush (1);

$mediaApi = Mage::getModel("catalog/product_attribute_media_api");
$_products = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection();
$i =0;
$total = count($_products);
$count = 0;
foreach($_products as $_prod)
{
    $_product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($_prod->getId());
    $_md5_values = array();

    //protected base image
    $base_image = $_product->getImage();
    if($base_image != 'no_selection')
    {
        $filepath =  Mage::getBaseDir('media') .'/catalog/product' . $base_image  ;
    
        if(file_exists($filepath))
            $_md5_values[] = md5(file_get_contents($filepath));
    }

    $i ++;
    echo "rn processing product $i of $total ";

    // Loop through product images
    $_images = $_product->getMediaGalleryImages();
    if($_images){
        foreach($_images as $_image){
            //protected base image
            if($_image->getFile() == $base_image)
                continue;

            $filepath =  Mage::getBaseDir('media') .'/catalog/product' . $_image->getFile()  ;
            if(file_exists($filepath))
                $md5 = md5(file_get_contents($filepath));
            else
                continue;

            if(in_array($md5, $_md5_values))
            {
                $mediaApi->remove($_product->getId(),  $_image->getFile());
                echo "rn removed duplicate image from ".$_product->getSku();
                $count++;
            } else {
                $_md5_values[] = $md5;
            }

        }
    }

}
echo "rnrn finished removed $count duplicated images";

?>

[Mageworx Team]

We don't have the Win server to check this for sure. We suppose, the reason for the mistake is the wrong separators in the path to the file. In code you provided `/` is used but the Win server requires this `\` separator in the path to the directory. Try to use  the DS constant instead of `/`. This constant contains the correct separator for the current server that execute the script.

For example, replace this:

$filepath =  Mage::getBaseDir('media') .'/catalog/product' . $base_image  ;

with that:

$filepath =  Mage::getBaseDir('media') . DS . 'catalog' . DS . 'product' . $base_image  ;