Deleting All Files from a Folder Using PHP

Deleting all files from a folder using PHP?

$files = glob('path/to/temp/*'); // get all file names
foreach($files as $file){ // iterate files
  if(is_file($file)) {
    unlink($file); // delete file
  }
}

If you want to remove 'hidden' files like .htaccess, you have to use

$files = glob('path/to/temp/{,.}*', GLOB_BRACE);

PHP: Unlink All Files Within A Directory, and then Deleting That Directory

Use glob to find all files matching a pattern.

function recursiveRemoveDirectory($directory)
{
    foreach(glob("{$directory}/*") as $file)
    {
        if(is_dir($file)) { 
            recursiveRemoveDirectory($file);
        } else {
            unlink($file);
        }
    }
    rmdir($directory);
}

Delete all files with a php script

you can delete all files using for loop, example:
`

$files = glob('path/to/temp/*'); // get all file names
foreach($files as $file){ // iterate files
  if(is_file($file))
    unlink($file); // delete file
}

`

Delete directory with files in it?

There are at least two options available nowadays.

1. Before deleting the folder, delete all its files and folders (and this means recursion!). Here is an example:

   public static function deleteDir($dirPath) {
       if (! is_dir($dirPath)) {
           throw new InvalidArgumentException("$dirPath must be a directory");
       }
       if (substr($dirPath, strlen($dirPath) - 1, 1) != '/') {
           $dirPath .= '/';
       }
       $files = glob($dirPath . '*', GLOB_MARK);
       foreach ($files as $file) {
           if (is_dir($file)) {
               self::deleteDir($file);
           } else {
               unlink($file);
           }
       }
       rmdir($dirPath);
   }
   

2. And if you are using 5.2+ you can use a RecursiveIterator to do it without implementing the recursion yourself:

   $dir = 'samples' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'sampledirtree';
   $it = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($dir, RecursiveDirectoryIterator::SKIP_DOTS);
   $files = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($it,
                RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST);
   foreach($files as $file) {
       if ($file->isDir()){
           rmdir($file->getRealPath());
       } else {
           unlink($file->getRealPath());
       }
   }
   rmdir($dir);
   

Remove all files, folders and their subfolders with php

<?php
  function rrmdir($dir) {
  if (is_dir($dir)) {
    $objects = scandir($dir);
    foreach ($objects as $object) {
      if ($object != "." && $object != "..") {
        if (filetype($dir."/".$object) == "dir") 
           rrmdir($dir."/".$object); 
        else unlink   ($dir."/".$object);
      }
    }
    reset($objects);
    rmdir($dir);
  }
 }
?>

Try out the above code from php.net

Worked fine for me

php function to delete all files & folders older than 1 day

The difficulty is that it depends on the intention of the caller. Should they pass in a directory and if so - should it remove this directory. As the routine is called rrmdir I would sort of expect it to remove the directory I was passing in.

function rrmdir($dir)
{
    echo $dir.PHP_EOL;
    if (is_dir($dir))
    {
        $objects = scandir($dir);
        foreach ($objects as $object)
        {
            if ($object != "." && $object != "..")
            {
                echo $object.'='.filetype($dir."/".$object).PHP_EOL;
                if (filetype($dir."/".$object) == "dir") {
                    rrmdir($dir."/".$object);
                    rmdir($dir);
                }
                if (filemtime($dir."/".$object) <= time()-60*60*24) unlink($dir."/".$object);

            }
        }
        reset($objects);
        //rmdir($dir);
    }
}

I've moved the rmdir into the test for sub-directories. It was previously removing all directories (including the one passed in).

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