[SOLVED] Deleting a directory

[adam291086]

I am wanting to be able to delete a directory and all its content. The content maybe other folders and files.

 

i thought about something like (which i got from browsing another forum)

 

<? 

$dir = dir("/path/to/your/directory/"); 

while($file = $dir->read()) { 

    if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { 

        unlink($file); 

    }

}

$dir->close();

?>

 

but that wont delete all the other folders contain within the directory i want to delete

 

i thought about the rmdir but that wont delete unless the folder is empty. Any thoughts on this is apprecicated

[valtido]

check the CMode settings

 

why dont u jus use unlink($dir);

to delete that directory

 

all at once

[adam291086]

that will delete the file but not a folder

 

[JasonLewis]

unlink deletes files, rmdir deletes directories. You would need a recursive function to get all subdirectories. But you would have to delete all files first, then perhaps add the dir to an array. After all files have been deleted, run another loop and delete all directories.

[adam291086]

found some code from the php.net comments and got the idea now

 

 

thanks