designoir
rmdirr & cleardir
rmdirr.php
Deletes a directory and its contents recursively / deeply.
<?php
/**
* function rmdirr
* Copyright (C) 2006 Dao Gottwald
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*
* Contact information:
* Dao Gottwald <dao at design-noir.de>
* Herltestraße 12
* D-01307, Germany
*
* @version 1.1
*/
function rmdirr ($dir) {
if (is_dir ($dir) && !is_link ($dir)) {
return cleardir ($dir) ? rmdir ($dir) : false;
}
return unlink ($dir);
}
?>
cleardir.php
Empties a directory, deleting all contained subdirectories and files deeply.
<?php
/**
* function cleardir
* Copyright (C) 2006 Dao Gottwald
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
* version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*
* Contact information:
* Dao Gottwald <dao at design-noir.de>
* Herltestraße 12
* D-01307, Germany
*
* @version 1.0
*/
function cleardir ($dir) {
if (!($dir = dir ($dir))) {
return false;
}
while (false !== $item = $dir->read()) {
if ($item != '.' && $item != '..' && !rmdirr ($dir->path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $item)) {
$dir->close();
return false;
}
}
$dir->close();
return true;
}
?>
Comments
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David wrote on February 27, 2006 10:39 AM GMT ():
Hello a thanks:)
i tried to write my own function like yours, but it allways failed:(
Thanks 4 help
gr8 stuff:)
Have a nice day and sleep well at night -
K-roy wrote on March 6, 2006 07:05 PM GMT ():
Just B E A Utifull :)
Thanx alot… -
Andras wrote on March 7, 2006 02:13 AM GMT ():
I’ve already done my function to find & destroy any directories.. I need this beacuse dreamweaver always creates “_notes” and it doesnt stop when i set him. The problem is thata i always get a Permission denied even if the directory is clear:
function scan($filename,$path,$delete){
$directorio=opendir($path);
while($file=readdir($directorio)){
if($file!==“.” && $file!==“..”){
if(is_dir(“$path/$file”)){
if($file==$filename){
scan($filename,“$path/$file”,true);
rmdir(“$path/$file”)
}else scan($filename,“$path/$file”,false);
}else{
if($delete==true){
unlink(“$path/$file”);
echo “\n<br> Eliminado exitosamente: $file”;
};
};
};
};
}; -
Dao wrote on March 7, 2006 03:21 AM GMT ():
Andras: So probably the user that the web server runs as really has no writing permission. Also note that |
while($file=readdir($directorio))| will fail on a file or directory named “0”. -
Julie Fuller wrote on March 27, 2006 08:18 PM BST ():
Is this free to use, GPL, LGPL, what?
Thanks. -
Julie Fuller wrote on March 27, 2006 09:17 PM BST ():
I’m going crazy if the license information was there a few hours ago – I distinctly remember there *not* being a scrollbar on the top box… ::wondering about own sanity::
At any rate, thanks for the answer, and sorry if I’m just really dazey today and didn’t notice it earlier! :-) -
Dao wrote on March 27, 2006 09:25 PM BST ():
It’s licensed under the LGPL now. If you downloaded the source before, consider that public domain. ;-)
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waz wrote on May 26, 2006 07:25 PM BST ():
Nice script. I added a little test to rmdirr
if ( file_exists($dir) )
{ return unlink ($dir); }
to avoid warnings if for some reason the file does not exist -
Rogee wrote on July 26, 2006 03:07 PM BST ():
Great script! Worked like a charm, even on an IIS server. Thank you.
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ieter wrote on August 22, 2006 03:10 PM BST ():
To avoid infinite loops because of symlinks, I changed the following in rmdirr:
if (is_dir ($dir))
=>
if (is_dir($dir) && !is_link($dir)) -
Dao wrote on August 23, 2006 09:41 AM BST ():
Thanks, ieter. That makes sense. I’ve modified rmdirr accordingly.
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Joachim Mueller wrote on January 15, 2009 08:12 AM GMT ():
Too bad your functions are PHP5 only - they looked very promising. I needed corresponding functions for use on a GPLed project with minimum requirements PHP4.
