note 44913 added to function.unlink

From: Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:45:39 +0000
Subject: note 44913 added to function.unlink
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This is gman's function but with some changes. 1. WARNING: This deletes the directory immediately, you don't have to call rmdir after deltree. Should not be too bad, because it should be empty anyways :-) 2. Don't fail on empty directories. 3. Don't require "/" at the end of the the argument to deltree. Improvements welcome. Example / Code: <?php $dir=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/foo/$bar"; deltree($dir); function deltree($dir) { function recursive_del($dir) { $d = dir($dir); while($f = $d->read() ) { if($f != "." && $f != "..") { if(is_dir($dir.$f)) { deltree($dir.$f."/"); rmdir($dir.$f); } debug_out($dir.$f); if(is_file($dir.$f)) unlink($dir.$f); } } $d->close(); } if (is_dir($dir)) { if (($dir{strlen($dir)-1})!='/') $dir.='/'; recursive_del($dir); rmdir($dir); } else { return; } } ?> ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.unlink.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+44913 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+44913&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+44913&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php

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