A recursive remove directory function for PHP?

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I am using PHP to move the contents of a images subfolder

GalleryName/images/

into another folder. After the move, I need to delete the GalleryName directory and everything else inside it.

I know that rmdir() won't work unless the directory is empty. I've spent a while trying to build a recursive function to scandir() starting from the top and then unlink() if it's a file and scandir() if it's a directory, then rmdir() each empty directory as I go.

So far it's not working exactly right, and I began to think -- isn't this a ridiculously simple function that PHP should be able to do? Removing a directory?

So is there something I'm missing? Or is there at least a proven function that people use for this action?

Any help would be appreciated.

PS I trust you all here more than the comments on the php.net site -- there are hundreds of functions there but I am interested to hear if any of you here recommend one over others.

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7 Answers
public static function rrmdir($dir)
{
    if (is_dir($dir)) {
        $files = scandir($dir);
        foreach ($files as $file) {
            if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
                if (filetype($dir . "/" . $file) == "dir")
                    self::rrmdir($dir . "/" . $file);
                else
                    unlink($dir . "/" . $file);
            }
        }
        reset($files);
        rmdir($dir);
    }
}
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