.DS_STORE and .ftpqutoa not unlinking?

[eldan88]

Hey,

 

 I have wrote some code to unlink all the files in my directory and then delete the directory.

 

All my files on my remote server gets unlinked besides the following 2 following files

. DS_STORE and .ftpqutoa.

 

Below is the code that I have written to unlink all files and delete all the code.

 

Any ideas on how to solve this?

 

All help is highly appreciated.

Thanks!

?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) { 
$store = $_POST['id']; // assign the store ID to the $store variable
foreach ($store as $id) { // Run a foreach loop to get the store id
$query = "SELECT * FROM stores WHERE id = {$id} "; // Run the query for the specific store id
$result_query = mysql_query($query,$connection); // Execute the query
$result = mysql_fetch_array($result_query,$connection); // Run a mysql fetch array on the result query 
$store_name = $result['store_name']; // get the store name

$menus_dir_path = "stores/".$store_name;// Path to the menus assets
$array_map_menus= array_map("unlink", glob($menus_dir_path."/*.*")); 
//rmdir($menus_dir_path);







    }// end of if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {  on line 13 
}// end of foreach ($store as $store_id) { on line 15

[requinix]

Dot/hidden files do not match against the *.* pattern. Try just *

[eldan88]

Dot/hidden files do not match against the *.* pattern. Try just *

Okay got it. Will do. Thanks!

[requinix]

Forget what I said.

 

Since you want all files in the directory use scandir instead of glob(). It will also include "." and ".." so you'll need to filter those out.

[eldan88]

Forget what I said.

 

Since you want all files in the directory use scandir instead of glob(). It will also include "." and ".." so you'll need to filter those out.

Thanks for the response...How can I filter them out??

[requinix]

You can't delete directories with unlink() anyways so is_file() should work for it.

 

Turns out glob() is still easier to use after all - mostly because you're looking at files in a different directory. Since I've now changed my mind a second time I'll present to you a bunch of options:

 

If you can use GLOB_BRACE you can

$menus_dir_path = "stores/".$store_name;// Path to the menus assets
array_map("unlink", array_filter(glob($menus_dir_path . "/{*.*,.*}", GLOB_BRACE), "is_file"));

If not you can array_merge().

$menus_dir_path = "stores/".$store_name;// Path to the menus assets
array_map("unlink", array_filter(array_merge(glob($menus_dir_path . "/*.*"), glob($menus_dir_path . "/.*")), "is_file"));

Or you can loop over a FilesystemIterator.

foreach (new FilesystemIterator($menus_dir_path) as $file) {
	if ($file->isFile()) {
		unlink($file->getPathname());
	}
}

Or something similar with scandir()

foreach (scandir($menus_dir_path) as $file) {
	if (is_file($menus_dir_path . "/" . $file)) {
		unlink($menus_dir_path . "/" . $file);
	}
}

which you can convert to an anonymous function and pass to array_map() (something you couldn't do with the FilesystemIterator).

[eldan88]

You can't delete directories with unlink() anyways so is_file() should work for it.

 

Turns out glob() is still easier to use after all - mostly because you're looking at files in a different directory. Since I've now changed my mind a second time I'll present to you a bunch of options:

 

If you can use GLOB_BRACE you can

$menus_dir_path = "stores/".$store_name;// Path to the menus assets
array_map("unlink", array_filter(glob($menus_dir_path . "/{*.*,.*}", GLOB_BRACE), "is_file"));

If not you can array_merge().

$menus_dir_path = "stores/".$store_name;// Path to the menus assets
array_map("unlink", array_filter(array_merge(glob($menus_dir_path . "/*.*"), glob($menus_dir_path . "/.*")), "is_file"));

Or you can loop over a FilesystemIterator.

foreach (new FilesystemIterator($menus_dir_path) as $file) {
	if ($file->isFile()) {
		unlink($file->getPathname());
	}
}

Or something similar with scandir()

foreach (scandir($menus_dir_path) as $file) {
	if (is_file($menus_dir_path . "/" . $file)) {
		unlink($menus_dir_path . "/" . $file);
	}
}

which you can convert to an anonymous function and pass to array_map() (something you couldn't do with the FilesystemIterator).

 

The first code (GLOB_BRACE) did the job! Thank you very much!