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Delete files and subdirectory files

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  1. /**
  2.  * Delete files in given path (and subdirs)
  3.  *
  4.  * <code> echo deleteFiles('c:/TEMP/greeting/','3019*.vox' ); </code>
  5.  *
  6.  * @param string $path			Path to the files to delete (should end with slash or backslash)
  7.  * @param string $match	 		Filename(s) to delete (use * as wildcard)
  8.  * @param boolean $delSubdirs	Delete matching files in subdirs
  9.  * @return integer				Returns how many files that were deleted
  10.  */
  11. function deleteFiles($path, $match, $delSubdirFiles = false){
  12. 	static $deleted = 0;
  13. 	$dirs = glob($path."*",GLOB_NOSORT);		// GLOB_NOSORT to make it quicker
  14. 	$files = glob($path.$match, GLOB_NOSORT);
  15.  
  16. 	foreach ($files as $file){
  17. 		if(is_file($file)){
  18. 			unlink($file);
  19. 			$deleted++;
  20. 		}
  21. 	}
  22. 	if ($delSubdirFiles) {
  23. 		foreach ($dirs as $dir){
  24. 			if (is_dir($dir)){
  25. 				$dir = basename($dir) . "/";
  26. 				deleteFiles($path.$dir,$match);
  27. 			}
  28. 		}
  29. 	}
  30. 	return $deleted;
  31. }

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