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I just started trying out Amazon S3 for hosting my website’s images. I’m using the official Amazon AWS PHP SDK library.
Problem: How can I delete all files located in a S3 ‘folder’?
For example if I have a file named images/2012/photo.jpg, I want to delete all files whose filenames start with images/2012/.
S3 does not have “folders” as you would traditionally think of them on a file system (some S3 clients just do a nice job making S3 appear to have folders). Those
/are actually part of the file name.As such, there is no “delete folder” option in the API. You would just need to delete each individual file that has the
images/2012/...prefix.Update:
This can be accomplished via the
delete_all_objectsmethod in the Amazon S3 PHP Client. Simply specify"/^images\/2012\//"as the regex prefix in the second argument (the first argument being your bucket name).