you could break out into the shell and do
rm $dir/* (rm -r $dir/* if there's directories too)
(or del $dir/*.* for dos)
or use opendir, readdir, closedir to read the directory's content and use
unlink to delete the file(s)
(if $dir is not hardcoded, I can see a security hole here....)
-----Original Message-----
From: @ Nilaab [mailto:superbus22@;attbi.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 1:32 PM
To: Php-General
Subject: [PHP] How To Delete All Files In A Directory
Hello Everyone,
I have a directory that I want emptied everytime a script accesses a certain
function. I tried using rmdir() and then mkdir(), thinking that it will
delete the directory and the contents within it, and would create a brand
new directory for me to work with from scratch. Well, that didn't happen and
I read the PHP docs to see why.
I checked to see how else I can do this by reading about some other
filesystem functions, and now I'm more confused than ever. Which
combinations of functions would I need to empty a directory's entire
contents? I just need some direction on this. Thanks.
- Nilaab
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