PHP: Unlink All Files Within A Directory, and then Deleting That Directory
Solution 1
Use glob
to find all files matching a pattern.
function recursiveRemoveDirectory($directory)
{
foreach(glob("{$directory}/*") as $file)
{
if(is_dir($file)) {
recursiveRemoveDirectory($file);
} else {
unlink($file);
}
}
rmdir($directory);
}
Solution 2
Use glob()
to easily loop through the directory to delete files then you can remove the directory.
foreach (glob($dir."/*.*") as $filename) {
if (is_file($filename)) {
unlink($filename);
}
}
rmdir($dir);
Solution 3
The glob()
function does what you're looking for. If you're on PHP 5.3+ you could do something like this:
$dir = ...
array_walk(glob($dir . '/*'), function ($fn) {
if (is_file($fn))
unlink($fn);
});
unlink($dir);
Solution 4
A simple and effective way of deleting all files and folders recursively with Standard PHP Library, to be specific, RecursiveIteratorIterator and RecursiveDirectoryIterator. The point is in RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST
flag, iterator will loop through files first, and directory at the end, so once the directory is empty it is safe to use rmdir()
.
foreach( new RecursiveIteratorIterator(
new RecursiveDirectoryIterator( 'folder', FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS | FilesystemIterator::UNIX_PATHS ),
RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST ) as $value ) {
$value->isFile() ? unlink( $value ) : rmdir( $value );
}
rmdir( 'folder' );
Solution 5
Try easy way:
$dir = "/home/dir";
array_map('unlink', glob($dir."/*"));
rmdir($dir);
In Function for remove dir:
function unlinkr($dir, $pattern = "*") {
// find all files and folders matching pattern
$files = glob($dir . "/$pattern");
//interate thorugh the files and folders
foreach($files as $file){
//if it is a directory then re-call unlinkr function to delete files inside this directory
if (is_dir($file) and !in_array($file, array('..', '.'))) {
unlinkr($file, $pattern);
//remove the directory itself
rmdir($file);
} else if(is_file($file) and ($file != __FILE__)) {
// make sure you don't delete the current script
unlink($file);
}
}
rmdir($dir);
}
//call following way:
unlinkr("/home/dir");
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Comments
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NoodleOfDeath about 4 years
I there a way I can use RegExp or Wildcard searches to quickly delete all files within a folder, and then remove that folder in PHP, WITHOUT using the "exec" command? My server does not give me authorization to use that command. A simple loop of some kind would suffice.
I need something that would accomplish the logic behind the following statement, but obviously, would be valid:
$dir = "/home/dir" unlink($dir . "/*"); # "*" being a match for all strings rmdir($dir);