Definition
This function depends on The unlink() function.
This quick way to delete any directory or any files.
you can use this in Many areas such as delete the templete engines cached files.
Syntax:
empty_dir($directory,$delit);
Parameters
directory
Path to the directory.
delit
1-need to empty a directory, but keeping it.Use this
empty_dir('Path/directory', false);
2-need to empty a directory,and delete it too.Use this
empty_dir('Path/directory', ture);
tip: To unlink, the web server user must have write permissions to the directory.
Conversely, if a user has write permissions to a directory, it may delete files from that directory regardless of who owns them
The function
function empty_dir($directory, $delit) {
if(!$dh = @opendir($directory)) return;
while (false !== ($obj = readdir($dh))) {
if($obj=='.' || $obj=='..') continue;
if (!@unlink($directory.'/'.$obj)) empty_dir($directory.'/'.$obj, true);
}
closedir($dh);
if ($delit){
@rmdir($directory);
}
}
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Website Programming | Views: 1,553 | on: September 24, 2009 | by:
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