note 79844 deleted from function.ftp-rmdir by bjori

Note Submitter: php DOT 20 DOT rinogo AT xoxy.net Reason: useless ---- I got tired of trying other people's implementations of recursive FTP deletion, so I wrote my own. It's full of helpful comments and straightforward PHP. Enjoy! (I'm running PHP 4.7 I believe) Returns false on error, true on success. /** * Recursively delete a directory. * * @param string $resource FTP connection resource * @param string $path Path to the directory on the FTP-server relative to the current working directory */ function delete_dir_recursive($resource, $path) { $list = ftp_nlist($resource, $path); foreach($list as $item) { //Skip . and .. if($item=='.' || $item=='..') continue; //Delete files elseif($item==$path) { if(ftp_delete($resource, $path)===FALSE) return FALSE; } //Recursively enter directories else { //If there were any errors in the recursive call execution, return immediately. if(!delete_dir_recursive($resource, "$path/$item")) return FALSE; //If the directory is not yet empty, continue deleting entries. if(sizeof(ftp_nlist($resource, $path))>2) continue; //Delete directories after we've deleted all files within them (*after* the recursive call) if(ftp_rmdir($resource, $path)===FALSE) return FALSE; } } return TRUE; }