Posted by Andy Hassall on 02/13/06 23:14

On 13 Feb 2006 12:14:40 -0800, laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:

>Using PHP 4, what are the shortest amount of lines I can write to
>delete all the files in a given directory?

$dir = '/x/y/z';
if ($dir = opendir($dir))
{
while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false)
{
if (is_file("$dir/$file"))
{
unlink("$dir/$file");
}
}
}

If you really want it shorter you can remove some of the braces.

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