Delete directory with files in it?

Question

I wonder, what's the easiest way to delete a directory with all its files in it?

I'm using rmdir(PATH . '/' . $value); to delete a folder, however, if there are files inside of it, I simply can't delete it.

Answer 1

You can try as follows:

/*
 * Remove the directory and its content (all files and subdirectories).
 * @param string $dir the directory name
 */
function rmrf($dir) {
    foreach (glob($dir) as $file) {
        if (is_dir($file)) { 
            rmrf("$file/*");
            rmdir($file);
        } else {
            unlink($file);
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

If you are not sure, Given path is directory or file then you can use this function to delete path

function deletePath($path) {
        if(is_file($path)){
            unlink($path);
        } elseif(is_dir($path)){
            $path = (substr($path, -1) !== DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) ? $path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR : $path;
            $files = glob($path . '*');
            foreach ($files as $file) {
                deleteDirPath($file);
            }
            rmdir($path);
        } else {
            return false;
        }
}

Answer 3

<?php
  function rrmdir($dir) {
  if (is_dir($dir)) {
    $objects = scandir($dir);
    foreach ($objects as $object) {
      if ($object != "." && $object != "..") {
        if (filetype($dir."/".$object) == "dir") 
           rrmdir($dir."/".$object); 
        else unlink   ($dir."/".$object);
      }
    }
    reset($objects);
    rmdir($dir);
  }
 }
?>

Have your tryed out the obove code from php.net

Work for me fine

Answer 4

Delete all files in Folder
array_map('unlink', glob("$directory/*.*"));
Delete all .*-Files in Folder (without: "." and "..")
array_map('unlink', array_diff(glob("$directory/.*),array("$directory/.","$directory/..")))
Now delete the Folder itself
rmdir($directory)

Answer 5

I do not remember from where I copied this function, but it looks like it is not listed and it is working for me

function rm_rf($path) {
    if (@is_dir($path) && is_writable($path)) {
        $dp = opendir($path);
        while ($ent = readdir($dp)) {
            if ($ent == '.' || $ent == '..') {
                continue;
            }
            $file = $path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $ent;
            if (@is_dir($file)) {
                rm_rf($file);
            } elseif (is_writable($file)) {
                unlink($file);
            } else {
                echo $file . "is not writable and cannot be removed. Please fix the permission or select a new path.\n";
            }
        }
        closedir($dp);
        return rmdir($path);
    } else {
        return @unlink($path);
    }
}

Answer 6

Example for the Linux server: exec('rm -f -r ' . $cache_folder . '/*');