Is there any way I can use RegExp or Wildcard searches to quickly delete all files within a folder, and then remove that folder in PHP, WITHOUT using the "exec" command? My server does not give me authorization to use that command. A simple loop of some kind would suffice.
I need something that would accomplish the logic behind the following statement, but obviously, would be valid:
$dir = "/home/dir"
unlink($dir . "/*"); # "*" being a match for all strings
rmdir($dir);
Use glob to find all files matching a pattern.
function recursiveRemoveDirectory($directory)
{
foreach(glob("{$directory}/*") as $file)
{
if(is_dir($file)) {
recursiveRemoveDirectory($file);
} else {
unlink($file);
}
}
rmdir($directory);
}
maximum function nesting level of '100' reached
scandir function in my code, now it works perfectly with this version!
} else { use } else if(!is_link($file)) { to be symlink safeUse glob() to easily loop through the directory to delete files then you can remove the directory.
foreach (glob($dir."/*.*") as $filename) {
if (is_file($filename)) {
unlink($filename);
}
}
rmdir($dir);
glob($dir."/*.*"). i tried it and it wiped out all the directory including top ones my hard workThe glob() function does what you're looking for. If you're on PHP 5.3+ you could do something like this:
$dir = ...
array_walk(glob($dir . '/*'), function ($fn) {
if (is_file($fn))
unlink($fn);
});
unlink($dir);
A simple and effective way of deleting all files and folders recursively with Standard PHP Library, to be specific, RecursiveIteratorIterator and RecursiveDirectoryIterator. The point is in RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST flag, iterator will loop through files first, and directory at the end, so once the directory is empty it is safe to use rmdir().
foreach( new RecursiveIteratorIterator(
new RecursiveDirectoryIterator( 'folder', FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS | FilesystemIterator::UNIX_PATHS ),
RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST ) as $value ) {
$value->isFile() ? unlink( $value ) : rmdir( $value );
}
rmdir( 'folder' );
Try easy way:
$dir = "/home/dir";
array_map('unlink', glob($dir."/*"));
rmdir($dir);
In Function for remove dir:
function unlinkr($dir, $pattern = "*") {
// find all files and folders matching pattern
$files = glob($dir . "/$pattern");
//interate thorugh the files and folders
foreach($files as $file){
//if it is a directory then re-call unlinkr function to delete files inside this directory
if (is_dir($file) and !in_array($file, array('..', '.'))) {
unlinkr($file, $pattern);
//remove the directory itself
rmdir($file);
} else if(is_file($file) and ($file != __FILE__)) {
// make sure you don't delete the current script
unlink($file);
}
}
rmdir($dir);
}
//call following way:
unlinkr("/home/dir");
You can use the Symfony Filesystem component, to avoid re-inventing the wheel, so you can do
use Symfony\Component\Filesystem\Filesystem;
$filesystem = new Filesystem();
if ($filesystem->exists('/home/dir')) {
$filesystem->remove('/home/dir');
}
If you prefer to manage the code yourself, here's the Symfony codebase for the relevant methods
class MyFilesystem
{
private function toIterator($files)
{
if (!$files instanceof \Traversable) {
$files = new \ArrayObject(is_array($files) ? $files : array($files));
}
return $files;
}
public function remove($files)
{
$files = iterator_to_array($this->toIterator($files));
$files = array_reverse($files);
foreach ($files as $file) {
if (!file_exists($file) && !is_link($file)) {
continue;
}
if (is_dir($file) && !is_link($file)) {
$this->remove(new \FilesystemIterator($file));
if (true !== @rmdir($file)) {
throw new \Exception(sprintf('Failed to remove directory "%s".', $file), 0, null, $file);
}
} else {
// https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52176
if ('\\' === DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR && is_dir($file)) {
if (true !== @rmdir($file)) {
throw new \Exception(sprintf('Failed to remove file "%s".', $file), 0, null, $file);
}
} else {
if (true !== @unlink($file)) {
throw new \Exception(sprintf('Failed to remove file "%s".', $file), 0, null, $file);
}
}
}
}
}
public function exists($files)
{
foreach ($this->toIterator($files) as $file) {
if (!file_exists($file)) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
}
One way of doing it would be:
function unlinker($file)
{
unlink($file);
}
$files = glob('*.*');
array_walk($files,'unlinker');
rmdir($dir);
without creating an array first, definitely faster. sometimes it takes special handling why a folder cannot be deleted.
function clean_dir($dir){
$error='';
$dh=opendir($dir);
while($dh&&($file=readdir($dh))!=false){
if($file=='.'||$file=='..')continue;
$rp=$dir=='.'?$file:"$dir/$file";
if(!is_readable($rp)){$error.=PHP_EOL.$rp;continue;}
if(is_link($rp))@unlink(readlink($rp));
elseif(is_file($rp))
chmod($rp,octdec(644))!=false?@unlink($rp):$error.=PHP_EOL.$rp;
elseif(is_dir($rp)){
if(chmod($rp,octdec(755))!=false)
count(scandir($rp))==2?@rmdir($rp):clean_dir($rp);
else{$error.=PHP_EOL.$rp;}
}
}
closedir($dh);
return($error);
}
for removing all the files you can remove the directory and make again.. with a simple line of code
<?php
$dir = '/home/files/';
rmdir($dir);
mkdir($dir);
?>
