How to Remove Directories Recursively with PHP - updated method

Revision: 58493

at July 18, 2012 12:29 by fackz

Initial Code

function rmdir_recursive($dir){
  $files = scandir($dir);
  foreach ($files as $file) {
    if ($file == '.' OR $file == '..') continue;
    $file = "$dir/$file";
    if (is_dir($file)) {
      rmdir_recursive($file);
      rmdir($file);
    } else {
      unlink($file);
    }
  }
  rmdir($dir);
}

Initial URL

http://bsd-noobz.com/blog/how-to-remove-directories-recursively-with-php

Initial Description

This function removes a directory and its contents.
Use with careful, no undo!

Initial Title

How to Remove Directories Recursively with PHP -  updated method

Initial Tags

file

Initial Language

PHP

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