delete whole directory

[PapRika]

Is there a functin available that deletes a whole directory with all the file that are not in use?

I browsed the Internet but didn;t find it.

[Weedpacket]

Delete the files and then delete the directory. Or use one of the system functions to run rm -dr.

[PapRika]

thanks! Now I have this:

<?
$dir = "c:/tempers/";
$now = time();

if ($handle = opendir( $dir )) {

while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
if ($file != "." && $file != "..")
{

unlink($dir . $file);
}
}

closedir($handle);
}

The only thing I don't understand to delete only the files that are NOT in use. You said something about "run rm-dr". What is that exactly?

[diego25]

rm -dr is a Unix/Linux command to remove something. In this case, the options -d and -r tell the rm command to remove a directory and recursively (i.e. subdirectories too). But I think it's missing a -f argument because rm won't by default remove non-empy directories. You can run commands from within PHP by using system(), although it's not really recommended unless you really have to use it.

Anyway, what do you mean by "not in use"?

Diego

[PapRika]

In the temporary directory there are coming some files that are sent to the browser to open/save as.
I don't want to delete files that are at that moment sent to the browser

[diego25]

Then you could keep a file that has all the filenames that are being downloaded. Remove the filename from the file when the download is done. So your remove script will remove the files that are not in the file.

Diego