Delete directory with files in it?

I can't believe there are 30+ answers for this. Recursively deleting a folder in PHP could take minutes depending on the depth of the directory and the number of files in it! You can do this with one line of code ...

shell_exec("rm -rf " . $dir);

If you're concerned with deleting the entire filesystem, make sure your $dir path is exactly what you want first. NEVER allow a user to input something that can directly delete files without first heavily validating the input. That's essential coding practice.

You can try as follows:

/*
 * Remove the directory and its content (all files and subdirectories).
 * @param string $dir the directory name
 */
function rmrf($dir) {
    foreach (glob($dir) as $file) {
        if (is_dir($file)) { 
            rmrf("$file/*");
            rmdir($file);
        } else {
            unlink($file);
        }
    }
}

you can try this simple 12 line of code for delete folder or folder files... happy coding... ;) :)

function deleteAll($str) {
    if (is_file($str)) {
        return unlink($str);
    }
    elseif (is_dir($str)) {
        $scan = glob(rtrim($str,'/').'/*');
        foreach($scan as $index=>$path) {
            $this->deleteAll($path);
        }            
        return @rmdir($str);
    }
}

You could copy the YII helpers

$directory (string) - to be deleted recursively.

$options (array) - for the directory removal. Valid options are: traverseSymlinks: boolean, whether symlinks to the directories should be traversed too. Defaults to false, meaning that the content of the symlinked directory would not be deleted. Only symlink would be removed in that default case.

public static function removeDirectory($directory,$options=array())
{
    if(!isset($options['traverseSymlinks']))
        $options['traverseSymlinks']=false;
    $items=glob($directory.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'{,.}*',GLOB_MARK | GLOB_BRACE);
    foreach($items as $item)
    {
        if(basename($item)=='.' || basename($item)=='..')
            continue;
        if(substr($item,-1)==DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR)
        {
            if(!$options['traverseSymlinks'] && is_link(rtrim($item,DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR)))
                unlink(rtrim($item,DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR));
            else
                self::removeDirectory($item,$options);
        }
        else
            unlink($item);
    }
    if(is_dir($directory=rtrim($directory,'\\/')))
    {
        if(is_link($directory))
            unlink($directory);
        else
            rmdir($directory);
    }
}

If you are not sure, Given path is directory or file then you can use this function to delete path

function deletePath($path) {
        if(is_file($path)){
            unlink($path);
        } elseif(is_dir($path)){
            $path = (substr($path, -1) !== DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) ? $path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR : $path;
            $files = glob($path . '*');
            foreach ($files as $file) {
                deleteDirPath($file);
            }
            rmdir($path);
        } else {
            return false;
        }
}