deleting folder and entire contents

[anfetienne]

Hi,

I've tried so many codes to delete folders that has other folders and files within them but no joy as to finding one that works. I get alot of permission denied....don't know how to get around this

Any suggestions on one that does work?

[Atli]

Hi.

If you want to completely remove a non-empty directory, you must first remove all files and sub-directories from within it.

Best way to deal with tasks like that is probably a recursive function:
(in pseudocode)

function deleteDirectory(pathToDirector)
    foreach fileInDirectory
        unlink(fileInDirectory)
 
    foreach dirInDirectory
        deleteDirectory(dirInDirectory)
 
    rmdir(pathToDirectory)

I suggest reading up on the readdir, unlink and rmdir functions.

And you will of course have to have full permission on the directory and all it's files and sub-directories.