Delete directory with files in it?

Question

I wonder, what's the easiest way to delete a directory with all its files in it?

I'm using rmdir(PATH . '/' . $value); to delete a folder, however, if there are files inside of it, I simply can't delete it.

Answer 1

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); 

Answer 2

I generally use this to delete all files in a folder:

array_map('unlink', glob("$dirname/*.*")); 

And then you can do

rmdir($dirname);