Deleting .htaccess + .htpasswd

[Anon]

I am writing a program that password protects directories on the fly by creating a .htpasswd and .htaccess in the directories with the specified information.

The problem is - I can not delete the directories, not the .htaccess/.htpasswd files. How can I do this via PHP, so that I may be able to create AND delete password protected directories? I haave the creating done...just not the deleting.

If anyone could offer advice, I would greatly appreciate it.

Bryan

[theslinky]

You can do two things:

1) use the system command "rm -r" on the directory

2) delete all the files by using the opendir and reading file names and then use rmdir to delete the directory.

rm -r is quicker... but the second way is probably the better way to catch errors.

-sridhar

[Anon]

Sridhar,

Thanks you - could you point me to a command I would use to perform unix command line commands via PHP?

Thanks for the help!

[Anon]

I've figured it out. This is what I did for anyone else who may need to do this:

shell_exec("rm -r $dir");

Where $dir is the absolute path to the directory.

Bryan