Re: Deleteing folders containing files...

From: Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:23:01 +0000
Subject: Re: Deleteing folders containing files...
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At 09:36 AM 3/15/2002 +0000, Philip Jeffs wrote:
Hi, Does anyone know of an 'easy' way to delete folders that contain files and sub-folders?
Here's what I use (use rmdirRf($folderthatcontainsotherstuff)): <? function rmdirRf($file) { if(file_exists($file)) {
    chmod($file,0777);
    if (is_dir($file)) {
      $directory = dir($file);
      while(false !== ($filename = $directory->read())) {
        if ($filename != "." && $filename != "..") {
          rmdirRf($file."/".$filename);
        }
      }
      $directory->close();
      rmdir($file);
    } else {
      unlink($file);
    }
} } ?>

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