Delete directory

PHP
1 
$file = 'myFile.php';
if (file_exists($file)) {
    unlink($file);
}

The code above deletes myFile.php.

This time, I like to delete myDirectory instead of myFile.php.
How can I delete myDirectory ?

The would-be code below doesn’t work correctly, but I hope it shows what I want.

$directory = 'myDirectoy';
if (directory_exists($directory)) {
    delete($directory);
}
2

Hi dotJoon,

The function you need is actually [fphp]rmdir[/fphp]. The PHP documentation has a full list of all the filesystem functions which you might find useful.

3

To remove an entire directory along with all sub directories recursively use the following code snippet.

rmdirr(‘path/to/dir’);


/**
	Function to remove directory
	* Depends on cleardir
*/
function rmdirr ($dir) 
{
    if (is_dir ($dir) && !is_link ($dir)) 
    {
        return cleardir ($dir) ? rmdir ($dir) : false;
    }
    
    return unlink ($dir);
}

/**
	Function to clear a directory recursively
	* Depends on rmdirr
*/
function cleardir ($dir) 
{
    if (!($dir = dir ($dir))) 
    {
        return false;
    }
    while (false !== $item = $dir->read()) 
    {
        if ($item != '.' && $item != '..' && !rmdirr ($dir->path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $item)) 
        {
            $dir->close();
            return false;
        }
    }
    $dir->close();
    return true;
}