Remove all files, folders and their subfolders with php

Question

I need a script which can remove a whole directory with all their subfolders, files and etc. I tried with this function which I found in internet before few months ago but it not work completely. ``` function deleteFile($dir) { if(substr($dir, strlen($dir)-1, 1) != '/') { $dir .= '/'; } if($handle = opendir($dir)) { while($obj = readdir($handle)) { if($obj != '.' && $obj != '..') { if(is_dir($dir.$obj)) { if(!deleteFile($dir.$obj)) { echo $dir.$obj."
"; return false; } } elseif(is_file($dir.$obj)) { if(!unlink($dir.$obj)) { echo $dir.$obj."
"; return false; } } } } closedir($handle); if(!@rmdir($dir)) { echo $dir.'
'; return false; } return true; } return true; } ``` For the test I use a unpacked archive of prestashop and I try to delete the folder where archive is unpacked but it doesn't work. ``` /home/***/public_html/prestashop/img/p/3/ /home/***/public_html/prestashop/img/p/3 /home/***/public_html/prestashop/img/p /home/***/public_html/prestashop/img ``` These are t…

Accepted Answer

```
<?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 a comment on php.net

Worked fine for me

Remove all files, folders and their subfolders with php

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