Directory and content deletion

[mcmuney]

Hey, I'm try to delete a directory, but I get, "Directory not empty" error. How can I delete the directory and it's content? I'm using this code:

 

rmdir($paththumbs);

[teng84]

<?
if ($handle = opendir('admin')) {
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
       unlink($file);
    }
    closedir($handle);
}
rmdir($paththumbs);
?>

[mcmuney]

I modified the 1st line and then attempted it and this time I got many more errors, am I missing something?

 

<?
if ($handle = opendir($paththumbs)) {
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
       unlink($file);
    }
    closedir($handle);
}
rmdir($paththumbs);
?>

[teng84]

what is the error? please post the error so we know where you went wrong

[mcmuney]

Below is the error print-screen and for your reference, line 62 is unlink($file); and line 66 is rmdir($paththumbs):

 

[teng84]

that means you still have dir inside your dir .. hmm let me play on this again..

[mcmuney]

I don't have another directory within the directory, this is the path below. I basically want to delete the /thumbs folder and anything inside it (there are no folders under /thumbs, only files):

 

$paththumbs = "../photos/".$rowPtFila[date]."/thumbs";

[teng84]

try to echo your files under that dir

 

<?
if ($handle = opendir($paththumbs)) {
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
       if($file  == '.'|| $file  == '..'){echo  'this is not directoty<br/>';}
       else  { echo $file.'<br/>';}
    }
    closedir($handle);
}

?>

 

try and see what it returns

 

or maybe this

<?
if ($handle = opendir($paththumbs)) {
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
       unlink($paththumbs.'/'.$file);
    }
    closedir($handle);
}
rmdir($paththumbs);
?>

[mcmuney]

Ok, some progress made here. The first code didn't work and resulted in this error:

 

 

The second code also produced an error, but managed to delete the folder and its contents. Now, just need to get rid of the error:

 

 

[priti]

Hi,

 

How about using this

 

$cmd= 'rm -rf <directoryName>' ;

exec($cmd);

 

regards

[mcmuney]

Can you elaborate on that a bit more? I'm not sure how to incorporate that into the existing code.

[priti]

Can you elaborate on that a bit more? I'm not sure how to incorporate that into the existing code.

write below set of code replacing <directoryName>  where you are writing your present code.Comment that first and try this two lines of code.

 

$cmd= 'rm -rf <directoryName>' ;

 

This command will delete the directory even if it contains the content in it.

 

exec($cmd);

 

Regards

[mcmuney]

It didn't work and it didn't give me any errors either.

 

		if(is_dir($paththumbs)){
		$cmd= 'rm -rf <$paththumbs>' ;
		exec($cmd);
	}

[ratcateme]

Got this from http://nz.php.net/unlink

 

function SureRemoveDir($dir, $DeleteMe) {
    if(!$dh = @opendir($dir)) return;
    while (false !== ($obj = readdir($dh))) {
        if($obj=='.' || $obj=='..') continue;
        if (!@unlink($dir.'/'.$obj)) SureRemoveDir($dir.'/'.$obj, true);
    }

    closedir($dh);
    if ($DeleteMe){
        @rmdir($dir);
    }
}

SureRemoveDir($paththumbs, true) ;

 

Scott.

[priti]

It didn't work and it didn't give me any errors either.

 

		if(is_dir($paththumbs)){
		$cmd= 'rm -rf <$paththumbs>' ;
		exec($cmd);
	}

correction in code

$cmd= 'rm -rf $paththumbs' ;

 

Now try,

Regards