Delete Directory in PHP?

Question

how can i delete the directory and its all the files belonging in it with php?

Answer 1

rmdir — Removes directory

bool rmdir  ( string $dirname  [, resource $context  ] )

Attempts to remove the directory named by dirname . The directory must be empty, and the relevant permissions must permit this.

Note

rmdir will not remove the directory if the directory is not empty and you will receive a warning message. You would either have to loop through and unlink any existing files, or you could invoke a system command on the directory.

Eg:

<?php
//Delete folder function
function deleteDirectory($dir) {
    if (!file_exists($dir)) return true;
    if (!is_dir($dir) || is_link($dir)) return unlink($dir);
        foreach (scandir($dir) as $item) {
            if ($item == '.' || $item == '..') continue;
            if (!deleteDirectory($dir . "/" . $item)) {
                chmod($dir . "/" . $item, 0777);
                if (!deleteDirectory($dir . "/" . $item)) return false;
            };
        }
        return rmdir($dir);
    }
?>

Answer 2

You want to nuke a directory and it's contents (which means phoenix's answer is incomplete, since rmdir() won't remove a non-empty directory.

If you're being quick-n-dirty, just use whatever facility the system provides. Backticks will make this easy.:

<?PHP
`rm -rf /some/directory/i/hate`
?>

Or you could use exec() (and see the "See Also" options on that page)

Answer 3

another version using recursiveDirectoryIterator, removes a directory including any files/folders within.

<?php

function RmDirRecursive($path) 
{
    $realPath = realpath($path);
    if (!file_exists($realPath)) 
     return false;
    $DirIter = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($realPath); 
    $fileObjects = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($DirIter, RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST);
    foreach ($fileObjects as $name => $fileObj) {
     if ($fileObj->isDir()) 
      rmdir($name);
     else
      unlink($name);
    }
    rmdir($realPath);
    return true;
}

?>