I am trying to remove a directory with rmdir, but I received the 'Directory not empty' message, because it still has files in it.
What function can I use to remove a directory with all the files in it as well?
I am trying to remove a directory with rmdir, but I received the 'Directory not empty' message, because it still has files in it.
What function can I use to remove a directory with all the files in it as well?
From http://php.net/manual/en/function.rmdir.php#91797
Glob function doesn't return the hidden files, therefore scandir can be more useful, when trying to delete recursively a tree.
<?php
public static function delTree($dir) {
$files = array_diff(scandir($dir), array('.','..'));
foreach ($files as $file) {
(is_dir("$dir/$file")) ? delTree("$dir/$file") : unlink("$dir/$file");
}
return rmdir($dir);
}
?>
There are plenty of solutions already, still another possibility with less code using PHP arrow function:
function rrmdir(string $directory): bool
{
array_map(fn (string $file) => is_dir($file) ? rrmdir($file) : unlink($file), glob($directory . '/' . '*'));
return rmdir($directory);
}
I didn't arrive to delete a folder because PHP said me it was not empty. But it was. The function by Naman was the good solution to complete mine. So this is what I use :
function emptyDir($dir) {
if (is_dir($dir)) {
$scn = scandir($dir);
foreach ($scn as $files) {
if ($files !== '.') {
if ($files !== '..') {
if (!is_dir($dir . '/' . $files)) {
unlink($dir . '/' . $files);
} else {
emptyDir($dir . '/' . $files);
rmdir($dir . '/' . $files);
}
}
}
}
}
}
function deleteDir($dir) {
foreach(glob($dir . '/' . '*') as $file) {
if(is_dir($file)){
deleteDir($file);
} else {
unlink($file);
}
}
emptyDir($dir);
rmdir($dir);
}
So, to delete a directory and recursively its content :
deleteDir($dir);
function delTree($dir) {
$files = array_diff(scandir($dir), array('.','..'));
foreach ($files as $file)
(is_dir("$dir/$file")) ? delTree("$dir/$file") : @unlink("$dir/$file");
return @rmdir($dir);
}