Deleting a "full" folder (dir)

[newbreed65]

Hi Everyone

 

Is there a function to delete a folder and its content by just saying you want to delete the folder?

 

I currently I know how to do it by deleteing every file with unlink and then deleting the folder with rmdir. I  was just wondering if there was well a less pain in the arse way.

 

its for deleting a photo album folder

[Philip]

I'm 99.99% sure that you have to delete each file individually, then delete the folder when it's empty. However, depending on your system setup, you might be able to get away with some server commands. Example:

<?php
$pathto = '/home/user/public_html/images/iwanttodeletethis/';
system ("rm -Rf $pathto") ;
?>

That should delete the folder and all the contents, given your running the correct os

[newbreed65]

hmm I guess Ill have to just do it by deleting the files first :-/

[HoTDaWg]

hmmm im not to sure if itll delete the files as well but you could try:

<?php
rmdir("path/folder_name");
?>

hope this helps.

 

EDIT: im sorry this is of no use to you, i re-read your post. my mistake

if a mod is around hopefully they could delete this post?

[newbreed65]

No sadly the folder has to be empty first...below is currently the code I have which deletes it all.

 

I was just hoping that there might have been a function out there that would have done the same thing just would have mess around deleting all the files from the folder first

 

  	$getpic = "SELECT *
	  FROM movieimages
	  WHERE movie_id = $mid";
$result = mysql_query($getpic)
  or die(mysql_error());
	while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

	$DelImage ="images/" . $mid . "/" . $row ['image_id'] . ".jpg";

	$DelThumb = "images/" . $mid . "/thumbs/" . $row ['image_id'] . ".jpg";
	$dirImage = "images/" . $mid;
	$dirThumb = "images/" . $mid . "/thumbs";

	unlink($DelImage);
	unlink($DelThumb);
}	

rmdir($dirThumb);
rmdir($dirImage);