[SOLVED] How to delete all the files using PHP

[lovesmith]

Well i want to delete all the files in a certain folder with the php code. Folder have write permission, and there might me so many files. can unlink function can be used? if yes...what we pass for the filename parameter to delete?

[vbnullchar]

<?php
$dir = "/home/user/";

if (is_dir($dir)) {
    if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
        while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
            if(filetype($dir . $file) == 'file') {
             exec("rm $file");
            }
        }
        closedir($dh);
    }
}
?>

[lovesmith]

hey thanks a lot, will try now!

[lovesmith]

<?php
$dir = "/home/user/";

if (is_dir($dir)) {
    if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
        while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
            if(filetype($dir . $file) == 'file') {
             exec("rm $file");
            }
        }
        closedir($dh);
    }
}
?>

Does this code deletes all the file, as we dont know the file name that users upload to my server. ??

[vbnullchar]

it deletes all the files inside the specified directory..

 

change :

 

<?php exec("rm $file"); ?>

 

to

 

<?php exec("rm $dir$file"); ?>

 

or in windows

 

<?php exec("del $dir$file"); ?>

[lovesmith]

Below is my code and my server is linux. The code didnt worked. And the folder got read, write,execute permission as well. Can you say whats going on?

 

$dir=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/users/".$userid."/";
if (is_dir($dir)) {
    if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
        while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
            if(filetype($dir . $file) == 'file') {
		//$path=$dir.$file;
            exec("rm $dir$file");
		 $deletefiles=delete_data(TABLE_UPLOAD, " user_id='$userid'","");
		 $deletesubs=delete_data(TABLE_USERSPACE, " user_id='$userid' AND space_id='$space'","");
		 header("Location: storage_list.php");
            }
        }
        closedir($dh);
    }
}

[lovesmith]

in above code $userid is the variables that holds the subfolder in which all the files reside that i want to delete