Question

I once used this wrong PHP script which created a 340 mode directories:

<?php
 $uname = "secret";
 mkdir("/home/u251526215/public_html/user/profile/".$uname."", 755);
?>

The script above creates a 340 CHMOD directories. I’ve repaired the “755” to “0755” and it is now working perfectly. But for now, how can I delete the 340 directories which were already created? I have tried to delete them using FTP manager, but it kept saying error. I’ve tried to use rmdir() but it says directory not empty but it is completely empty!

Updated: All action to the directory; rename, move, copy, change permission and open are error returned

Answer 1

Maybe there is a hidden file. I found this function to delete a directory with all contents:

function delete_directory($dirname) {
   if (is_dir($dirname))
      $dir_handle = opendir($dirname);
   if (!$dir_handle)
      return false;
   while($file = readdir($dir_handle)) {
      if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
         if (!is_dir($dirname."/".$file))
            unlink($dirname."/".$file);
         else
            delete_directory($dirname.'/'.$file);    
      }
   }
   closedir($dir_handle);
   rmdir($dirname);
   return true;
}

Source http://www.ozzu.com/programming-forum/php-delete-directory-folder-t47492.html