Cleaning up a directory with php and cron job

[lajkonik86]

I want to clean up a directory with usermade directories in it.

I got a mysql databse which sais which pages are finished. So i could get which directories should stay.

Now how do i get php to delete all other directories(with everything inside them) in that folder?

[Weedpacket]

Look up [man]rmdir[/man] (short for "remove directory"). See also the user notes.

[lajkonik86]

ahh thanks for that one.
Still don't understand a few things
What does this do in the user submitted delete function?

$file = $dir->read()

Also having that delete function i would now need to know all the directory names in the folder. How would i go about doing that?

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by lajkonik86
ahh thanks for that one.
Still don't understand a few things
What does this do in the user submitted delete function?

$file = $dir->read()

Also having that delete function i would now need to know all the directory names in the folder. How would i go about doing that? [/B]

Well, on that page I linked to, you may notice on the left-hand side a whole list of functions. Those are for handling files. There is also a chapter in the manual for directory functions; you can find it by going up a level in that list - and you can do that by clicking on the "Filesystem" title, with the up arrow next to it, and then looking in the resulting list below for "directory".

[lajkonik86]

scandir

Ok thanks for that one. I didn't really know where to look.

[lajkonik86]

great i found something else i completely don't understand

Warning: opendir(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usermade/) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home2/topdown/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home2/topdown/public_html/cleanup.php on line 7

Warning: opendir(/usermade/): failed to open dir: Operation not permitted in /home2/topdown/public_html/cleanup.php on line 7
fuck

Comes from this:

function scandir($dir, $no_dots=FALSE) {

   $files = array();
   $dh  = opendir($dir);
   if ($dh!=FALSE) {
       while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) {
           $files[] = $filename;
       }

   if ($no_dots) {
       while(($ix = array_search('.',$files)) > -1)
               unset($files[$ix]);
       while(($ix = array_search('..',$files)) > -1)
               unset($files[$ix]);
   }

   sort($files);

   }
   echo "fuck";
   return $files;
}







$dir = "/usermade/";
scandir($dir);
$x = 0;
while ($x < 7) {
echo $files[$x];
$x++;
}

Some wise words would be appreciated

Cheers,
Thierry

[Skull]

change $dir = "/usermade/" to $dir = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/usermade/"

[lajkonik86]

Ok no more errors thanks.
The files[$x] still doesn't give any results.
What could be causing that?

Damn i hate being clueless about something

[lajkonik86]

🙁

Php is a lady, she can sometimes be a bitch.

[lajkonik86]

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