note 46299 added to function.rmdir

this is just a script to remove a directory and all it subfolders all what should be done is to specify the path in "$todelet" , the script will get the mother path for you , change the defaut path of php to this path and then proceed with deleting the directory and evrything in it. <?php $todelet="/www/htdocs/tmp/tmp1"; /*this function will return the mother directory to be able to delete the son*/ function getparent($son){ $place=strrpos($son,'/');//will search for the occurence / in the string return substr($son,0,$place+1);//return substring 1 is added to the length because if not it will not return the / } //check if a directory is empty function isempty($direct){ $handle=dir($direct); $counter=0; //a directory is empty if it contains the '.' and '..' pointers if the directory contains just 1 file break the operation and return true; while(false!== ($tmp=$handle->read())){ if($tmp!="." && $tmp!="..") $counter++; if($counter==1) break; } $handle->close(); return $counter==0; } /*called by delete and will delete evrything*/ function sub_delete($todelete){ $handle=dir($todelete); echo "$handle->path<BR>"; //strating to delete the directory after opening it while(false!==($tmp=$handle->read())) { echo "$todelete/$tmp<BR>"; if($tmp!="." && $tmp!="..")//dosen t take count of those pointers { if(is_file("$todelete/$tmp")) // if it s a file delete directly nothing to be done { echo "$todelete/$tmp"; unlink("$todelete/$tmp"); } else if(isempty("$todelete/$tmp"))// if it s an empty directory also delete it directly rmdir("$todelete/$tmp"); else sub_delete("$todelete/$tmp");//if not empty open the directory and delete all what s in it } } $handle->close(); rmdir($todelete);//delete the mother directory } /*called to find the mother directory changed the path to the mother to be able to delete the son or else we can t*/ function delete($direct){ $mother=getparent($direct); chdir($mother); sub_delete($direct); } delete ($todelet); ?> ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rmdir.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+46299 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+46299&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+46299&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php