What is the best approach between using exec() and PHP functions (like rmdir(), unlink() etc.) when you are manipulating the filesystem?
What is the best approach between using exec() and PHP functions (like rmdir() ,
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What is the best approach between using exec() and PHP functions (like rmdir(), unlink() etc.) when you are manipulating the filesystem?
The PHP versions in isolation will be faster than starting up a shell/invoking a process to carry out some operation. They’ll also be portable across across different operating systems and will be available even where the webserver does not have access to the standard shell commands (e.g. due to chroot / permissions).
However for particularly complex operations, then using an external command/process may be much faster, and require significantly less programming effort e.g. consider how you would implement this in php: