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Posted By

BenJD on 02/22/11


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Delete a Directory

 / Published in: PHP
 

Recurively iterate through a folder and all of it's subdirectories, delting every file.

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  1. class RemoveDirectory
  2. {
  3. 	public function delete($rootDir)//:Boolean
  4. 	{
  5. 		$result = true;
  6.  
  7. 		if( !$this->removeDir($rootDir) )
  8. 			$result = false;
  9. 		else
  10. 		{
  11. 			rmdir($rootDir) or $result = false;
  12. 		}
  13.  
  14. 		return $result;
  15. 	}
  16.  
  17. 	private function removeDir($dir)//:Boolean
  18. 	{
  19. 		$result = true;
  20.  
  21. 		$rootDir = opendir($dir);
  22.  
  23. 		if($rootDir)
  24. 		{
  25. 			while(false !== ($file = readdir($rootDir))) 
  26. 			{
  27. 				if($file != "." && $file != "..") 
  28. 				{
  29. 					chmod($dir.$file, 0777);
  30.  
  31. 					if(is_dir($dir.$file)) 
  32. 					{
  33.  
  34. 						chdir('.');
  35. 						$this->removeDir($dir.$file.'/');
  36. 						rmdir($dir.$file) or $result = false;
  37. 					}
  38.  
  39. 					else
  40. 						unlink($dir.$file) or $result = false;
  41. 				}
  42.  
  43. 			}
  44.  
  45. 			closedir($rootDir);
  46. 		}
  47. 		else
  48. 			$result = false;
  49.  
  50. 		return $result;
  51. 	}
  52. }

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