recursive delete all files/folders

[betterdie]

Dear guru

I want to delete all file and folder recursivly under php code, can
anyone give me commend for this.

Thank very much

[Erwin Moller]

be*******@gmail.com wrote:

Dear guru

I want to delete all file and folder recursivly under php code, can
anyone give me commend for this.

Thank very much

Hi,

It is not too complicated.
But pay attention to potential problems concerning file and directory
permissions.
Remember that PHP runs as user 'nobody' or 'apache' or 'www-data' on most
*nix machines, and as IUSR_XXX on W$ machines/IIS.

That user needs appropriate right to delete files and directories.

For some reference and code-examples, start reading here:
http://nl2.php.net/dir
and
http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php

You will probably use functions like rmdir() and unlink().

Good luck!

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Chung Leong]

Something like the following should work. Untested though.

function delete_dir($path) {
$files = glob("$path/*");
foreach($files as $file) {
if(is_dir($file) && !is_link($file)) {
delete_dir($file);
}
else {
unlink($p);
}
}
rmdir($path);
}

[juglesh]

deletes a file, or a folder and everything in it, whatever you put into
$dirname.

function rmdirr($dirname)
{
// Sanity check
if (!file_exists($dirname)) {
echo "no directory by that name";
return false;
}

// Simple delete for a file
if (is_file($dirname)) {
return unlink($dirname);
}

// Loop through the folder
$dir = dir($dirname);
while (false !== $entry = $dir->read()) {
// Skip pointers
if ($entry == '.' || $entry == '..') {
continue;
}

// Recurse
rmdirr("$dirname/$entry");
}// end while looping

// Clean up
$dir->close();
return rmdir($dirname);

}

[Chuck Anderson]

be*******@gmail.com wrote:

Dear guru

I want to delete all file and folder recursivly under php code, can
anyone give me commend for this.

Thank very much

I wrote a function to do that a few weeks ago that was based on a
recursive copy function (for an application script on my local Windows
machine), but when it came time to test it, I chickened out and just
wrote a script to remove the specific folders used in my application.

Be careful. Those files do not go to the recycle bin.

--
*****************************
Chuck Anderson • Boulder, CO
http://www.CycleTourist.com
Integrity is obvious.
The lack of it is common.
*****************************

[Alexey Kulentsov]

be*******@gmail.com wrote:

Dear guru

I want to delete all file and folder recursivly under php code, can
anyone give me commend for this.

/// Clean directory
/** Delete all files in directory
* @param $path directory to clean
* @param $recursive delete files in subdirs
* @param $delDirs delete subdirs
* @param $delRoot delete root directory
* @access public
* @return success
*/
function cleanDir($path,$recursive=true,$delDirs=false,$del Root=null)
{
$result=true;
if($delRoot===null) $delRoot=$delDirs;
if(!$dir=@dir($path)) return false;
while($file=$dir->read())
{
if($file==='.' || $file==='..') continue;

$full=$dir->path.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$file;
if(is_dir($full) && $recursive)
{
$result&=filesys::cleanDir($full,$recursive,$delDi rs,$delDirs);
}else if(is_file($full))
{
$result&=unlink($full);
}
}
$dir->close();
if($delRoot)
{
$result&=rmdir($dir->path);
}
return $result;
}