unlink an entire folder

[Anon]

is there anyway to unlink the contents of an entire folder?

(running linux and php4)

unlink("$path/*")
doesn't want to work.

[Anon]

Maybe this will work :

chdir("$path");
$dir = dir(".");
$dir->rewind();
while ($file=readdir($dir))
{
unlink ($file);
}
$dir->close();

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hope it helps.

[kparker]

system("rm -r $path");

Effective, but dangerous, too. Fortunately, if Apache is running as <b>nobody</b> you can't damage the system itself if $path points to some surprising place, but if you've given write access to stuff in DOCUMENT_ROOT your web content could get blown away.