How to remove a zip directory?

[shadiadiph]

Probably a silly question but is there a function that can remove a zip directory from the server?

 

I have tried rmdir and unlink neither work!!

[JonnoTheDev]

Because a directory needs to be empty before it can be removed.

Look at the examples for recursive deletion within the manual.

http://uk3.php.net/rmdir

[shadiadiph]

mm i have tried opening it removing the content tried opendir unlink closedir rmdir also been trung to do it with zip_open zip_close can't seem to get it to work

[JonnoTheDev]

Does the user the script is running under have the correct permissions?

[shadiadiph]

I did think of that too i changed chmod to 755 and it still wouldn't work.

[JonnoTheDev]

post your code

[shadiadiph]

Tried both of the codes below neither seem to work

 

 

$openzip =opendir('metro.zip');
if ($openzip==false)
{
echo "Could not open metro.zip<br />"; 
exit; 
}
if ($openzip==true)
{ 
unlink('metro.csv'); 
closedir('metro.zip');
rmdir('metro.zip');
}

 

$zip = new ZipArchive;
if ($zip->open('metro.zip') === TRUE) {
    $zip->deleteName('metro.csv');
    $zip->close();
rmdir('metro.zip');
echo "Ok";
} else {
    echo 'failed';
}

[JonnoTheDev]

Bad code. You are using opendir to create a handle for a directory and not using it in any way. You are not supplying a server path to your directory or file to delete. Your folder name metro.zip, are you sure this is a folder, looks like a filename to me.

<?php
$openzip =opendir('metro.zip');
if ($openzip==false)
{
echo "Could not open metro.zip<br />";
exit;
}
if ($openzip==true)
{
unlink('metro.csv');
closedir('metro.zip');
rmdir('metro.zip');
}
?>

 

To open a directory and recursively delete files & the folder something like the following will work

<?php
$dir = "/path/to/my/folder/from/server/root/";
// Open a known directory, and proceed to read its contents
if (is_dir($dir)) {
    if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
        while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
            if($filename != ".." || $filename != ".") {
              unlink($dir.$filename);
            }
        }
        closedir($dh);
        rmdir($dir);
    }
}
?>

[shadiadiph]

php doesn't seem to recognise it as a directory but as a file when i try to unlink it it keeps telling me

 

Warning: unlink(metro.zip) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in 

 

I need to have a rethink maybe i need to use ftp_connect and ftp_delete?

[JonnoTheDev]

err no. it simply means the owner of that directory is not that of the correct user, therefore you do not have permission to delete it. The error states clearly, 'Permission Denied'. Why would you use ftp functions? FTP functions connect to a remote FTP server, not the same server!

[shadiadiph]

So why would it still say access denied when it is set to 777?

Somethings not right

[JonnoTheDev]

Who is the owner of the directory?

[shadiadiph]

its my website so i guess its me it's set to 777 so anyone should be able to anything with it

[JonnoTheDev]

Check!

Run ls -l at a CLI prompt. If the directory is owned by the root user then there is no way it can be deleted.

Why not run a simple test? Simply create an empty directory on your server (with the correct ownership). Then use rmdir() to remove it.

<?php rmdir('/path/to/directory'); ?>

Does it work? If so, again it is a permissions error on your other directory, the ownership of the directory probably is that of a user that the web server isn't a member of the same group. You cannot expect a php script to remove files/directories on a server that it did not create. If so you could end up deleting system files and folders, and attacks would be rife!

[shadiadiph]

on another site i built it works fine with a normal directory that ctreates a temp directory and sucessfully removes them just seems to be with zip files