Woodburn2006 Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 is there any way of deleteing a folder and all of its contents using PHP? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/70197-delete-folder-and-its-contents/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
recklessgeneral Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 Hi, A combination of rmdir and unlink should do the job. See the discussion on the php.net website here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rmdir.php Cheers, Darren. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/70197-delete-folder-and-its-contents/#findComment-352575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gmunky Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 $filespath="folder/*"; //path of files to be deleted $folder="folder"; //path of folder to be deleted foreach (glob($filepath) as $filename) { unlink($filename); } rmdir($folder); Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/70197-delete-folder-and-its-contents/#findComment-352580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
recklessgeneral Posted September 21, 2007 Share Posted September 21, 2007 $filespath="folder/*"; //path of files to be deleted $folder="folder"; //path of folder to be deleted foreach (glob($filepath) as $filename) { unlink($filename); } rmdir($folder); Will this only work if the $folder path doesn't contain any directories? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/70197-delete-folder-and-its-contents/#findComment-352596 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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