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

What about this:

function recursiveDelete($dirPath, $deleteParent = true){
    foreach(new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($dirPath, FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS), RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST) as $path) {
        $path->isFile() ? unlink($path->getPathname()) : rmdir($path->getPathname());
    }
    if($deleteParent) rmdir($dirPath);
}

Answer 2

I prefer this because it still returns TRUE when it succeeds and FALSE when it fails, and it also prevents a bug where an empty path might try and delete everything from '/*' !!:

function deleteDir($path)
{
    return !empty($path) && is_file($path) ?
        @unlink($path) :
        (array_reduce(glob($path.'/*'), function ($r, $i) { return $r && deleteDir($i); }, TRUE)) && @rmdir($path);
}

Answer 3

What about this?

function Delete_Directory($Dir) 
{
  if(is_dir($Dir))
  {
      $files = glob( $Dir . '*', GLOB_MARK ); //GLOB_MARK adds a slash to directories returned

      foreach( $files as $file )
      {
          Delete_Directory( $file );      
      }
      if(file_exists($Dir))
      {
          rmdir($Dir);
      }
  } 
  elseif(is_file($Dir)) 
  {
     unlink( $Dir );  
  }
}

Refrence: https://paulund.co.uk/php-delete-directory-and-files-in-directory

Answer 4

Short function that does the job:

function deleteDir($path) {
    return is_file($path) ?
            @unlink($path) :
            array_map(__FUNCTION__, glob($path.'/*')) == @rmdir($path);
}

I use it in a Utils class like this:

class Utils {
    public static function deleteDir($path) {
        $class_func = array(__CLASS__, __FUNCTION__);
        return is_file($path) ?
                @unlink($path) :
                array_map($class_func, glob($path.'/*')) == @rmdir($path);
    }
}

---

With great power comes great responsibility: When you call this function with an empty value, it will delete files starting in root (/). As a safeguard you can check if path is empty:

function deleteDir($path) {
    if (empty($path)) { 
        return false;
    }
    return is_file($path) ?
            @unlink($path) :
            array_map(__FUNCTION__, glob($path.'/*')) == @rmdir($path);
}

Answer 5

Here you have one nice and simple recursion for deleting all files in source directory including that directory:

function delete_dir($src) { 
    $dir = opendir($src);
    while(false !== ( $file = readdir($dir)) ) { 
        if (( $file != '.' ) && ( $file != '..' )) { 
            if ( is_dir($src . '/' . $file) ) { 
                delete_dir($src . '/' . $file); 
            } 
            else { 
                unlink($src . '/' . $file); 
            } 
        } 
    } 
    closedir($dir); 
    rmdir($src);

}

Function is based on recursion made for copying directory. You can find that function here: Copy entire contents of a directory to another using php

Answer 6

Something like this?

function delete_folder($folder) {
    $glob = glob($folder);
    foreach ($glob as $g) {
        if (!is_dir($g)) {
            unlink($g);
        } else {
            delete_folder("$g/*");
            rmdir($g);
        }
    }
}