Delete directory with files in it?
I generally use this to delete all files in a folder:
array_map('unlink', glob("$dirname/*.*"));
And then you can do
rmdir($dirname);
There are at least two options available nowadays.
Before deleting the folder, delete all its files and folders (and this means recursion!). Here is an example:
public static function deleteDir($dirPath) { if (! is_dir($dirPath)) { throw new InvalidArgumentException("$dirPath must be a directory"); } if (substr($dirPath, strlen($dirPath) - 1, 1) != '/') { $dirPath .= '/'; } $files = glob($dirPath . '*', GLOB_MARK); foreach ($files as $file) { if (is_dir($file)) { self::deleteDir($file); } else { unlink($file); } } rmdir($dirPath); }
And if you are using 5.2+ you can use a RecursiveIterator to do it without implementing the recursion yourself:
$dir = 'samples' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'sampledirtree'; $it = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($dir, RecursiveDirectoryIterator::SKIP_DOTS); $files = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($it, RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST); foreach($files as $file) { if ($file->isDir()){ rmdir($file->getRealPath()); } else { unlink($file->getRealPath()); } } rmdir($dir);
what's the easiest way to delete a directory with all its files in it?
system("rm -rf ".escapeshellarg($dir));
Short function that does the job:
function deleteDir($path) {
return is_file($path) ?
@unlink($path) :
array_map(__FUNCTION__, glob($path.'/*')) == @rmdir($path);
}
I use it in a Utils class like this:
class Utils {
public static function deleteDir($path) {
$class_func = array(__CLASS__, __FUNCTION__);
return is_file($path) ?
@unlink($path) :
array_map($class_func, glob($path.'/*')) == @rmdir($path);
}
}
With great power comes great responsibility: When you call this function with an empty value, it will delete files starting in root (/
). As a safeguard you can check if path is empty:
function deleteDir($path) {
if (empty($path)) {
return false;
}
return is_file($path) ?
@unlink($path) :
array_map(__FUNCTION__, glob($path.'/*')) == @rmdir($path);
}