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

Question

I there a way I can use RegExp or Wildcard searches to quickly delete all files within a folder, and then remove that folder in PHP, WITHOUT using the "exec" command? My server does not give me authorization to use that command. A simple loop of some kind would suffice.

I need something that would accomplish the logic behind the following statement, but obviously, would be valid:

  $dir = "/home/dir" unlink($dir . "/*"); # "*" being a match for all strings rmdir($dir);  

Answer 1

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); } 

Answer 2

Use glob() to easily loop through the directory to delete files then you can remove the directory.

foreach (glob($dir."/*.*") as $filename) {     if (is_file($filename)) {         unlink($filename);     } } rmdir($dir);