note 42399 added to function.unlink
| From: | gman at rn2 dot php dot net | Date: | Fri, 14 May 2004 18:35:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 42399 added to function.unlink | ||
| Groups: | php.notes | ||
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Here is a funciton to delete an entire directory tree. You can follow the call to deltree () with
rmdir() if you want to remove the base directory.
Example usage:
deltree ($basedir.$dir); // base directory is now empty
rmdir ($basedir.$dir); // base directory is now gone.
function deltree($dir){
$d = dir($dir);
while($f = $d->read() ){
if($f != "." && $f != ".."){
if(is_dir($dir.$f)){
deltree($dir.$f."/");
rmdir($dir.$f);
} // if
if(is_file($dir.$f))
unlink($dir.$f);
}// if
}// while
$d->close();
}
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Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.unlink.php
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