Most of the occasions we might face a scenario on deleting a directory and all its contents subdirectories. So I came up with a simple function to acheive this issue. This function uses php’s inbuilt functions such as file_exits, is_dir, is_link, unlink, scandir and rmdir.
update: Incase you are facing trouble using unlink() and when you get an error saying warning Is dir. Also if you get error permission denied in windows xp. The below code will work for these issues.
$dir = ‘your_dir/’; // example.
function removeDir($dir)
{
if (!file_exists($dir)) return true;
if (!is_dir($dir) || is_link($dir)) return unlink($dir);
foreach (scandir($dir) as $item)
{
if ($item == ‘.’ || $item == ‘..’) continue;
if (!removeDir($dir . “/” . $item))
{
if (!removeDir($dir . “/” . $item)) return false;
};
}
return rmdir($dir);
}
Author: Srini
Website: Dreamsource
Comments
I will probably end up being back to look at some other posts that you have another time.
I think it is a bit complicated but I’ve liked.
your idea helped me in clearing my questions…. thanks