[Resolved] Delete all the files

[goaman]

I'm trying to delete all the files from a folder at once.

unlink("temp/junkfolder/"); doesn't seems to be helping much, guess I need to get all the files from the folder first, any help would be appreciated.

[kingbear]

This should get you started:
(you have to delete all the files in a directory before you remove the directory)

$res = opendir("/temp/junkfolder");

while(($f = readdir($res)) != false) {
if(strcmp($f, ".") != 0 && strcmp($f, "..") != 0) {
unlink("/temp/junkfolder/$f");
}
}

unlink("/temp/junkfolder");

[goaman]

kingbear,
your code is working perfectly... Thankyou v.much mate 🙂

[Egri]

Originally posted by kingbear
This should get you started:
(you have to delete all the files in a directory before you remove the directory)

$res = opendir("/temp/junkfolder");

while(($f = readdir($res)) != false) {
if(strcmp($f, ".") != 0 && strcmp($f, "..") != 0) {
unlink("/temp/junkfolder/$f");
}
}

unlink("/temp/junkfolder");

[/B]

Could anyone explain how this works? Maybe a line by line "Keep it simple stupid" breakdown?

[kingbear]

// Open the directory for reading
$res = opendir("/temp/junkfolder");

// Go thru each file in the directory and store the name in the variable $f
while(($f = readdir($res)) != false) {
// Avoid the special "." and ".." files
if(strcmp($f, ".") != 0 && strcmp($f, "..") != 0) {
// Remove the file
unlink("/temp/junkfolder/$f");
}
}

// The directory is now empty, so remove it.
unlink("/temp/junkfolder");

[Egri]

Awesome that makes sense! Thanks a lot!

can you make it delete only certain types of files?

[jannoy]

// Open the directory for reading
$res = opendir("/temp/junkfolder");

// Go thru each file in the directory and store the name in the variable $f
while(($f = readdir($res)) != false) {
// Avoid the special "." and ".." files
if(strcmp($f, ".") != 0 && strcmp($f, "..") != 0) {
if ($f=="yourfile" ) { // your certain file
// Remove the file

unlink("/temp/junkfolder/$f");
}
}
}

// The directory is now empty, so remove it.
unlink("/temp/junkfolder"); // since we only delete a certain file we cannot delete the folder