RE: [PHP] How To Delete All Files In A Directory

you could break out into the shell and do rm $dir/* (rm -r $dir/* if there's directories too) (or del $dir/*.* for dos) or use opendir, readdir, closedir to read the directory's content and use unlink to delete the file(s) (if $dir is not hardcoded, I can see a security hole here....) -----Original Message----- From: @ Nilaab [mailto:superbus22@attbi.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 1:32 PM To: Php-General Subject: [PHP] How To Delete All Files In A Directory Hello Everyone, I have a directory that I want emptied everytime a script accesses a certain function. I tried using rmdir() and then mkdir(), thinking that it will delete the directory and the contents within it, and would create a brand new directory for me to work with from scratch. Well, that didn't happen and I read the PHP docs to see why. I checked to see how else I can do this by reading about some other filesystem functions, and now I'm more confused than ever. Which combinations of functions would I need to empty a directory's entire contents? I just need some direction on this. Thanks. - Nilaab -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php