note 107223 added to class.recursivedirectoryiterator

To improve on joelhy's example: This will perform the delete skipping . and .. to avoid trying to delete them before they are truly empty. This is ideal for nested dir structures containing files at every level. At the end, delete the parent dir. <?php if (is_dir($dir)) { $iterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($dir, FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS), RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST); foreach ($iterator as $path) { if ($path->isDir()) { rmdir($path->__toString()); } else { unlink($path->__toString()); } } // dir is empty now, remove it rmdir($dir); } ?> ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 69.46.155.252 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.recursivedirectoryiterator.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/107223 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107223/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107223/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107223/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107223/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107223/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107223/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/107223 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/107223 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php