RE: [PHP] Recurs Directory Delete
| From: | Mark Steudel | Date: | Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:18:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Recurs Directory Delete | ||
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I wish, I'm on an IIS box.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Lynch [mailto:ceo@l-i-e.com]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 2:09 PM
To: tedd
Cc: Mark Steudel; php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] Recurs Directory Delete
On Fri, July 14, 2006 2:07 pm, tedd wrote:
> At 11:55 AM -0700 7/14/06, Mark Steudel wrote:
>>I was hoping someone could give me a hand, I'm trying to create a
>> delete
>>folders function that recursively deletes folders and files from a
>> given
>>directory.
If you want to delete EVERYTHING, an exec("rm -r $path") could
potentially be much more efficient.
You'd be trading the cost of opening up a mini-shell against PHP
iteration, so it would depend on the number of directories, but if
there are LOTS of files, the rm -r will probably win.
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