note 99848 deleted from function.rmdir by danbrown

From: Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:58:47 +0000
Subject: note 99848 deleted from function.rmdir by danbrown
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Note Submitter: roberto at cantarano dot com ---- This is an alternative to the function i have posted yesterday (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rmdir.php#99838: a function to remove a folder content and sub content, without delete the main folder). This solution use scandir instead of readdir. This avoid problems with folders named "0" (ok... why rename a folder 0?? I don't know but is what the "phpthumb" script does when it caches and stores the images :D) <?php /* Example: full_emptydir( array( 'dirname' => 'yourpath', 'preserve' => array('keepme.html') ) ); */ function full_emptydir($fields){ if( !isset($fields['dirname']) or( isset($fields['dirname']) and !@scandir($fields['dirname']) )) return; $dirname = $fields['dirname']; $DeleteMe = isset($fields['DeleteMe']) ? $fields['DeleteMe'] : false; $preserve = isset($fields['preserve']) ? ( is_array($fields['preserve']) ? $fields['preserve'] : array() ) : array(); if(is_array(scandir($dirname))){ $obj = scandir($dirname); foreach($obj as $value){ if($value == '.' or $value == '..') continue; if( count($preserve) == 0 or (count($preserve) > 0 and !in_array($value, $preserve) ) ){ if (!@unlink($dirname.'/'.$value)) full_emptydir( array( 'dirname' => $dirname.'/'.$value, 'DeleteMe' => true, 'preserve' => $preserve) ); } } } if ($DeleteMe){ @rmdir($dirname); } } ?> Thank you Gabriel, my friend, for the "scandir" hint ;)

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