I wrote recursive PHP function for folder deletion. I wonder, how do I modify this function to delete all files and folders in webhosting, excluding given array of files and folder names (for ex. cgi-bin, .htaccess)?
BTW
to use this function to totally remove a directory calling like this
recursive_remove_directory('path/to/directory/to/delete');
to use this function to empty a directory calling like this:
recursive_remove_directory('path/to/full_directory',TRUE);
Now the function is
function recursive_remove_directory($directory, $empty=FALSE)
{
// if the path has a slash at the end we remove it here
if(substr($directory,-1) == '/')
{
$directory = substr($directory,0,-1);
}
// if the path is not valid or is not a directory ...
if(!file_exists($directory) || !is_dir($directory))
{
// ... we return false and exit the function
return FALSE;
// ... if the path is not readable
}elseif(!is_readable($directory))
{
// ... we return false and exit the function
return FALSE;
// ... else if the path is readable
}else{
// we open the directory
$handle = opendir($directory);
// and scan through the items inside
while (FALSE !== ($item = readdir($handle)))
{
// if the filepointer is not the current directory
// or the parent directory
if($item != '.' && $item != '..')
{
// we build the new path to delete
$path = $directory.'/'.$item;
// if the new path is a directory
if(is_dir($path))
{
// we call this function with the new path
recursive_remove_directory($path);
// if the new path is a file
}else{
// we remove the file
unlink($path);
}
}
}
// close the directory
closedir($handle);
// if the option to empty is not set to true
if($empty == FALSE)
{
// try to delete the now empty directory
if(!rmdir($directory))
{
// return false if not possible
return FALSE;
}
}
// return success
return TRUE;
}
}
Try something like this:
$it = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(
new RecursiveDirectoryIterator('%yourBaseDir%'),
RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST
);
$excludeDirsNames = array();
$excludeFileNames = array('.htaccess');
foreach($it as $entry) {
if ($entry->isDir()) {
if (!in_array($entry->getBasename(), $excludeDirsNames)) {
try {
rmdir($entry->getPathname());
}
catch (Exception $ex) {
// dir not empty
}
}
}
elseif (!in_array($entry->getFileName(), $excludeFileNames)) {
unlink($entry->getPathname());
}
}
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