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Posted by Jim Michaels on 02/14/06 08:23
"Andy Hassall" <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote in message
news:6ht1v1hcjoeo7p4n0o26erjpas270j0k1g@4ax.com...
> 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?
>
this works for one directory, but not subdirectories under it. for that, it
needs to be recursive.
function zapdir($dir) {
if ($dir = opendir($dir)) {
while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false) {
if (is_file("$dir/$file")) {
unlink("$dir/$file");
}
//is a directory or a symlink
if (is_dir("$dir/$file") && "." != $file && ".." != $file) {
zapdir("$dir/$file");
rmdir("$dir/$file") or echo "unable to remove directory
$dir/$file\n";
}
if (is_link("$dir/$file")) {
unlink("$dir/$file"); //remove symbolic link. does not
remove original file AFAIK
}
}
}
}
zapdir('/x/y/z');
If you really want it shorter you can remove some of the braces.
>
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> Andy Hassall :: andy@andyh.co.uk :: http://www.andyh.co.uk
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