[Resolved] Problems deleting directories

[ghjrbrasil]

Let say this is the layout of my direcotires:

Home
---home1 (subdirectory of Home)
---home2 (subdirectory of Home)

I'm trying to write a script that will run from the home1 and delete the home2 directory (and consequently all that's in it):

$file="../home2/";

function delete($file) {
if (file_exists($file)) {
chmod($file,0777);
if (is_dir($file)) {
$handle = opendir($file);
while($filename = readdir($handle)) {
if ($filename != "." && $filename != "..") {
delete($file."/".$filename);
}
}
closedir($handle);
rmdir($file);
}
else {
unlink($file);
}
}
}

This code does echo the correct files that are in home2, but when it comes to accessing the files, performing chmod and finally unlinking it gives me errors and does not perform these actions (No such file or directory). What am I missing here?

greg

PS - It works like a charm if I run the script inside the directory I want to delete, puting "."as the path.

[Weedpacket]

What do the errors messages say exactly?

Might they be complaining because your filenames have // in them (one slash from the definition of $file, immediately followed by a second tacked on in the call to delete [sic]?) One of those is redundant.

[ghjrbrasil]

Bah, I posted the wrong code 🙂

As for now I'll I want to do is delete all the files inside the home2 directory, this is the code so far:

<?php
if ($handle = opendir('../home2/')) {
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
echo "$file\n";
chmod($file,0777);
unlink("$file");
echo "File Deleted";
}

}
closedir($handle); 

}
?>

Which gives these errors:

files.php
Warning: Unable to access files.php in /home/home1/files2.php on line 6

Warning: chmod failed: No such file or directory in /home/home1/files2.php on line 6

Warning: unlink() failed (No such file or directory) in /home/home1/files2.php on line 7
File Deleted

So it finds the files, but can't chmod or unlink.

Any ideas??

ghjr

[drawmack]

if ($handle = opendir('../home2/')) {
  //first get rid of unnecessary code to aid in readability
  while ($file = readdir($handle)) { 
    if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { 
       echo "$file\n";
       //put in the path to the file along with the filename
       chmod("../home2/$file",0777);
       //adding the path again
       unlink("../home2/$file");
       echo "File Deleted";
    } //end if
  } //end while
  closedir($handle); 
} //end if

that should take care of it for you, but I'd recommend sticking "../home2/ into a variable to make this code more portable.

[ghjrbrasil]

Gracias senhor 😉

ghjr

[ghjrbrasil]

Hmm, I'm able to delete the file with the above code, but when I put in variables as paths then Safe Mode blocks it.

ghjr

[ghjrbrasil]

Nevermind... it's up and running correctly now 🙂

thanks again.

ghjr