removing directories...

[edwardp]

If i have a temporary directory (windows) : c:\TEMP\temporarywebfiles\ and within this i create another temporary directory linked to a username (created on login)so i have : c:\TEMP\temporarywebfiles\edwardp_temp\ if i use rmdir($dir) ($dir being the example) will it try and remove just the edwardp_temp directory or will it try and remove the whole directory structure if they are empty??

I have this routine:

if (is_dir($_SESSION['usrdir'])) { 
		$handle = opendir($_SESSION['usrdir']) or exit('could not open directory'); 
		while (($file = readdir($handle)) !== false) { 
			if ($file != '.' && $file != '..') { 
				unlink($_SESSION['usrdir'] . $file) or exit('could not delete file'); 
			}  

		}
		rmdir($_SESSION['usrdir']) or exit('could not delete directory'); 
	}  

if there are any files in the directory they are removed but when removing the directory it returns the 'could not delete directory'

[drew010]

if you are using win98 or below you can use deltree to delete a directory and all its contents. on xp/2k+ you can use rmdir /s /q to do the same. use one of the [man]exec[/man] type functions to execute the command.