Deleting a Directory (With Contents Inside)

[Warptweet]

Like most people who use a host to host their website, it's probably stored in public_html.

 

My public_html is so incredibly stacked with useless things, I need a fresh start. I tried deleting it with my FTP program, but my directory public_html is so ridiculously stacked, my internet has a connection glitch before it can even finish expanding the folders and begin deleting files -- and I really don't know what else to do.

 

I guess I could use my favorite coding language PHP to do this for me.

How would I delete an entire directory, including all the contents inside that directory, and all directories inside that directory. (public_html)

 

I'm sure theres a function, but for some reason I can't find it on php.net -- maybe I misread something.

Thanks for any help!

[BlueSkyIS]

before i'd write a script, i'd log in and work on the rm command. assuming you're not windows.

 

login meaning via SSH, telnet if necessary.

[Orio]

http://php.net/rmdir

although you need to empty it from files first!

 

Orio.

[Warptweet]

I saw the "unlink();" function, and was wondering, is it possible to use that to delete an entire directory and  all it's contents? Because of course, my problem is theres too many files in my directory, making rmdir totally useless too me.

[teng84]

i guess you have to delete all the files in that dir using unlink and once empty use rmdir

[clearstatcache]

how about using any of the php function exec or system with the command "rm -r $dir_name"....