Question

How could I delete all subdirectories within a specified directory?

The directory is c:/files/

and I want to delete all subdirectories within their (example):

c:/files/something/something/something/

c:/files/another-something/

So in the end c:/files/ just remains (is empty and has no subdirectories).

rmdir() only removes the last directory in the given path…so I’m guessing i’d have to loop? :/

All help appreciated.

(PS: the subdirectories don’t contain any files)

Answer 1

Taken from the PHP manual entry for rmdir:

 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); 
   } 
 }

This solves the problem using recursion.