How to delete a folder with PHP?
Posted by
om 9 August, 2009
To delete a file, or a folder and its contents i have compiled a recursive algorithm.
Hope this will be useful for all of you.
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<?php function rmdirr($dirname) { // Sanity check if (!file_exists($dirname)) { return false; } // Simple delete for a file if (is_file($dirname) || is_link($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 . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $entry); } // Clean up $dir->close(); return rmdir($dirname); } ?> |
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