How do I recursively delete a directory and its entire contents files sub dirs in PHP

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How do I delete a directory and its entire contents  files and subdirectories  in PHP

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simple  code that works and can be read by a ten year old   function deleteNonEmptyDir  dir        if  is dir  dir                  objects   scandir  dir            foreach   objects as  object                         if   object         amp  amp   object                                         if  filetype  dir          object      dir                                         deleteNonEmptyDir  dir          object                                      else                                       unlink  dir          object                                                      reset  objects           rmdir  dir             Please note that all I did was expand simplify and fix  didn t work for non empty dir  the solution here   In PHP how do I recursively remove all folders that aren  39 t empty

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function deltree cat  folder        if  is dir  folder                       handle   opendir  folder                while   subfile   readdir  handle                                       if   subfile        or  subfile          continue                       if  is file  subfile   unlink    folder    subfile                          else deltree cat    folder    subfile                                 closedir  handle                rmdir   folder               else                unlink  folder

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lt  php  use RecursiveDirectoryIterator  use RecursiveIteratorIterator  use SplFileInfo     http   stackoverflow com a 3352564 283851   https   gist github com XzaR90 48c6b615be12fa765898    Forked from https   gist github com mindplay-dk a4aad91f5a4f1283a5e2         Recursively delete a directory and all of it s contents - e g the equivalent of  rm -r  on the command-line     Consistent with  rmdir    and  unlink     an E WARNING level error will be generated on failure         param string  source absolute path to directory or file to delete      param bool    removeOnlyChildren set to true will only remove content inside directory         return bool true on success  false on failure     function rrmdir  source   removeOnlyChildren   false        if empty  source     file exists  source      false                return false             if is file  source     is link  source                 return unlink  source               files   new RecursiveIteratorIterator               new RecursiveDirectoryIterator  source  RecursiveDirectoryIterator  SKIP DOTS           RecursiveIteratorIterator  CHILD FIRST                fileinfo as SplFileInfo     foreach  files as  fileinfo                if  fileinfo- gt isDir                          if rrmdir  fileinfo- gt getRealPath        false                                return false                                  else                       if unlink  fileinfo- gt getRealPath        false                                return false                                     if  removeOnlyChildren     false                return rmdir  source              return true

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Example with glob   function  It will delete all files and folders recursively  including files that starts with dot    delete all   folder      function delete all   item         if   is dir   item               array map   delete all   array diff  glob    item         GLOB BRACE    array    item       item                    rmdir   item          else           unlink   item

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Using DirectoryIterator and recursion correctly   function deleteFilesThenSelf  folder        foreach new DirectoryIterator  folder  as  f            if  f- gt isDot    continue     skip   and            if   f- gt isFile                  unlink  f- gt getPathname               else if  f- gt isDir                  deleteFilesThenSelf  f- gt getPathname                         rmdir  folder

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Building on The Pixel Developer s comment  a snippet using the SPL might look like    files   new RecursiveIteratorIterator      new RecursiveDirectoryIterator  dir  RecursiveDirectoryIterator  SKIP DOTS       RecursiveIteratorIterator  CHILD FIRST     foreach   files as  fileinfo         todo     fileinfo- gt isDir      rmdir     unlink         todo  fileinfo- gt getRealPath        rmdir  dir     Note  It does no sanity checking and makes use of the SKIP DOTS flag introduced with the FilesystemIterator in PHP 5 3 0  Of course  the  todo could be an if else  The important point is that CHILD FIRST is used to iterate over the children  files  first before their parent  folders

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function rmdir recursive   dirname                     FilesystemIterator and SKIP DOTS              if   class exists   FilesystemIterator     amp  amp  defined   FilesystemIterator  SKIP DOTS                 if    is dir   dirname                   return false                     foreach  new RecursiveIteratorIterator  new RecursiveDirectoryIterator   dirname  FilesystemIterator  SKIP DOTS    RecursiveIteratorIterator  CHILD FIRST   as  path                  path- gt isDir     rmdir   path- gt getPathname       unlink   path- gt getRealPath                         return rmdir   dirname                           RecursiveDirectoryIterator and SKIP DOTS              if   class exists   RecursiveDirectoryIterator     amp  amp  defined   RecursiveDirectoryIterator  SKIP DOTS                 if    is dir   dirname                   return false                     foreach  new RecursiveIteratorIterator  new RecursiveDirectoryIterator   dirname  RecursiveDirectoryIterator  SKIP DOTS    RecursiveIteratorIterator  CHILD FIRST   as  path                  path- gt isDir     rmdir   path- gt getPathname       unlink   path- gt getRealPath                         return rmdir   dirname                           RecursiveIteratorIterator and RecursiveDirectoryIterator              if   class exists   RecursiveIteratorIterator     amp  amp  class exists   RecursiveDirectoryIterator                 if    is dir   dirname                   return false                     foreach  new RecursiveIteratorIterator  new RecursiveDirectoryIterator   dirname    RecursiveIteratorIterator  CHILD FIRST   as  path                 if   in array   path- gt getFilename    array                                    continue                             path- gt isDir     rmdir   path- gt getPathname       unlink   path- gt getRealPath                         return rmdir   dirname                           Scandir Recursive              if    is dir   dirname               return false              objects   scandir   dirname         foreach    objects as  object             if    object             object                          continue                    filetype   dirname   DIRECTORY SEPARATOR    object        dir    rmdir recursive   dirname   DIRECTORY SEPARATOR    object     unlink   dirname   DIRECTORY SEPARATOR    object               reset   objects        rmdir   dirname         return  is dir   dirname

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Once you finish running tests   just remove   from the  unlink and  rmdir in the class        lt  php  class RMRFiles            function   construct                   public function recScan   mainDir   allData   array                   hide files      hidefiles   array                              start reading directory      dirContent   scandir   mainDir                cycle through         foreach    dirContent as  key   gt   content                          path    mainDir          content                   if is readable   file             if     in array   content   hidefiles                               if   is file   path    amp  amp  is readable   path                                delete files within directory              unlink  path                allData  unlink        path                                 if is readable   directory             else             if   is dir   path    amp  amp  is readable   path                                 recursive                allData    this- gt recScan   path   allData                   finally remove directory              allData  rmdir      path               rmdir  path                                              return  allData              header  Content-Type  text plain        Get absolute path of the running script  Ex    home user public html       define  ABPATH   dirname   file                 The folder where we store cache files  Ex   home user public html var cache      define  STOREDIR   var cache       rmrf   new RMRFiles     here we delete folder content files  amp  directories print r  rmrf- gt recScan ABPATH STOREDIR     finally delete scanned directory     rmdir ABPATH STOREDIR      gt

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Enhanced  Artefacto  s solution - corrected typos and simplified code  working for both - empty  amp  amp  non-empty directories      function recursive rmdir  dir         if  is dir  dir              objects   array diff  scandir  dir   array                     foreach   objects as  object              objectPath    dir      object          if  is dir  objectPath              recursive rmdir  objectPath           else           unlink  objectPath                   rmdir  dir

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unlinkr function recursively deletes all the folders and files in given path by making sure it doesn t delete the script itself   function unlinkr  dir   pattern                 find all files and folders matching pattern      files   glob  dir      pattern            interate thorugh the files and folders     foreach  files as  file          if it is a directory then re-call unlinkr function to delete files inside this directory              if  is dir  file  and  in array  file  array                             echo   lt p gt opening directory  file  lt  p gt                unlinkr  file   pattern                 remove the directory itself             echo   lt p gt  deleting directory  file  lt  p gt                rmdir  file             else if is file  file  and   file      FILE                      make sure you don t delete the current script             echo   lt p gt deleting file  file  lt  p gt                unlink  file                        if you want to delete all files and folders where you place this script then call it as following    get current working directory  dir   getcwd    unlinkr  dir     if you want to just delete just php files then call it as following  unlinkr  dir     php      you can use any other path to delete the files as well   unlinkr   home user temp      This will delete all files in home user temp directory

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lt  php         code by Nk  nk have a gmail com       class filesystem       public static function remove  path                return is dir  path    rmdir  path    unlink  path              public static function normalizePath  path                return  path  is dir  path   amp  amp   preg match          path                                public static function rscandir  dir   sort   SCANDIR SORT ASCENDING                 results   array             if  is dir  dir           return  results            dir   self  normalizePath  dir             objects   scandir  dir   sort            foreach  objects as  object          if  object         amp  amp   object                                if is dir  dir  object                results   array merge  results  self  rscandir  dir  object   sort                else             array push  results   dir  object                      array push  results   dir            return  results             public static function rrmdir  dir                 files   self  rscandir  dir            foreach  files as  file          self  remove  file            return  file exists  dir              gt    cleanup php     lt  php     include       filesystem  rrmdir   var log    filesystem  rrmdir    cache       gt

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I use this code       function rmDirectory  dir            foreach glob  dir         as  file                if is dir  file                   rrmdir  file               else                 unlink  file                     rmdir  dir           or this one      lt  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           gt

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Something like this   function delete folder  folder         glob   glob  folder       foreach   glob as  g            if   is dir  g                 unlink  g             else               delete folder   g                  rmdir  g

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For  nix you can use  a shell exec for rm -R or DEL  S folder name for Windows

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The user-contributed section in the manual page of rmdir contains a decent implementation    function rrmdir  dir        if  is dir  dir            objects   scandir  dir        foreach   objects as  object            if   object         amp  amp   object                      if  is dir  dir  DIRECTORY SEPARATOR   object   amp  amp   is link  dir      object              rrmdir  dir  DIRECTORY SEPARATOR   object            else            unlink  dir  DIRECTORY SEPARATOR   object                          rmdir  dir

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Modified variant of  XzaR solution  It does remove empty folders  when all files are deleted from them and it throws exceptions instead of returning false on errors   function recursivelyRemoveDirectory  source   removeOnlyChildren   true        if  empty  source     file exists  source      false            throw new Exception  File does not exist    source                if  is file  source     is link  source             if  false     unlink  source                 throw new Exception  Cannot delete file   source                           files   new RecursiveIteratorIterator          new RecursiveDirectoryIterator  source  RecursiveDirectoryIterator  SKIP DOTS           RecursiveIteratorIterator  CHILD FIRST             foreach   files as  fileInfo                 var SplFileInfo  fileInfo            if   fileInfo- gt isDir                  if   this- gt recursivelyRemoveDirectory  fileInfo- gt getRealPath        false                    throw new Exception  Failed to remove directory    fileInfo- gt getRealPath                                  if  false     rmdir  fileInfo- gt getRealPath                       throw new Exception  Failed to remove empty directory    fileInfo- gt getRealPath                                else               if  unlink  fileInfo- gt getRealPath        false                    throw new Exception  Failed to remove file    fileInfo- gt getRealPath                                           if   removeOnlyChildren     false            if  false     rmdir  source                 throw new Exception  Cannot remove directory   source

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The 100  working solution  public static function rmdir recursive  directory   delete parent   null           files   glob  directory                    GLOB MARK GLOB BRACE       foreach   files as  file          if  is dir  file             self  rmdir recursive  file  1           else           unlink  file                     if   delete parent          rmdir  directory

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There is another thread with more examples here  A recursive remove directory function for PHP   If you are using Yii then you can leave it to the framework   CFileHelper  removeDirectory  my directory

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It seems that all other answers assume the path given to the function is always a directory   This variant works to remove directories as well as single files          Recursively delete a file or directory   Use with care         param string  path     function recursiveRemove  path        if  is dir  path             foreach  scandir  path  as  entry                if   in array  entry                                  recursiveRemove  path   DIRECTORY SEPARATOR    entry                                   rmdir  path         else           unlink  path

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I juste made this code  from some StackOverflow discussions  I didn t test on Linux environment yet  It is made in order to delete a file or a directory  completely      function splRm SplFileInfo  i         path    i- gt getRealPath         if   i- gt isDir              echo  D -      path     lt br   gt            rmdir  path         elseif  i- gt isFile              echo  F -      path     lt br   gt            unlink  path            function splRrm SplFileInfo  j         path    j- gt getRealPath         if   j- gt isDir               rdi   new RecursiveDirectoryIterator  path  FilesystemIterator  SKIP DOTS            rii   new RecursiveIteratorIterator  rdi  RecursiveIteratorIterator  CHILD FIRST           foreach   rii as  i                splRm  i                       splRm  j       splRrm new SplFileInfo   DIR        dirOrFileName

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Deletes all files and folders in the path   function recurseRmdir  dir       files   array diff scandir  dir   array               foreach   files as  file         is dir   dir  file      recurseRmdir   dir  file     unlink   dir  file          return rmdir  dir

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