Deleting folder and files inside directory in php

Question

I am trying to find a way of deleting a folder which is located inside another (eg accounts/username - i want to delete username but it has 2 folders inside (1 names images and other named videos) - with files inside.

I have tried

$accounts = "accounts";
$uploaddir = "$username";
$image_dir = 'image';
$video_dir = 'video';

$image_folder = "$accounts$username$image_dir/";
$uploadfile = $image_folder . basename($_FILES['image']['name']);

$dir = "$accounts/$uploaddir";
array_map('unlink', glob($dir."/*"));
rmdir($dir);

Check that : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3349753/delete-directory-with-files-in-it — , Apr 16 '15 at 11:48
is this an already exiting upload folder or are u deleting the folder in the fly when uplaod ? — Develop4Life, Apr 16 '15 at 11:49
See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3338123/how-do-i-recursively-delete-a-directory-and-its-entire-contents-files-sub-dir/3352564#3352564 — sitilge, Apr 16 '15 at 11:49

Develop4Life · Answer 1 · 2015-04-16T11:57:27.270

key function : unlink files ,scandir and rmdir but you need to scan that directory for all its content and do accordingly

1.Unlink on case of file 2.Remove on case of Directory using is_dir() function.

<?php
  function deleteDir($dir) {
  if (is_dir($dir)) {
    $objects = scandir($dir);
    foreach ($objects as $object) {
      if ($object != "." && $object != "..") {
        if (filetype($dir."/".$object) == "dir") 
           deleteDir($dir."/".$object); 
        else unlink   ($dir."/".$object);
      }
    }
    reset($objects);
    rmdir($dir);
  }
 }
?>

onyour case:

$dir = "$accounts/$uploaddir";
deleteDir($dir);

Cheers!

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 16 '15 at 11:52

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You can use following function,

unlink(file_path);

You can remove complete folder/files. refer http://php.net/manual/en/function.unlink.php

Thanks Amit

answered Apr 16 '15 at 11:52

Amit Shah

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 16 '15 at 12:19

Here is function, I use all time:

function delete_directory($dirname) {
   if (is_dir($dirname))
      $dir_handle = opendir($dirname);

   if (!$dir_handle)
      return false;
   while($file = readdir($dir_handle)) {
      if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
         if (!is_dir($dirname."/".$file))
            unlink($dirname."/".$file);
         else
            delete_directory($dirname.'/'.$file);    
      }
   }
   closedir($dir_handle);
   rmdir($dirname);
   return true;
}

Deleting folder and files inside directory in php

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