I can create but I can't delete

moraru

Hi.

I am having a script that is creating a directory and some content, and it's working just fine.

But when I am trying to delete the content and the directory ain't working.

here is the code:

create.php

<?
mkdir("test",0777);
$dschd = fopen("test/text.txt","w+");
$scr = fwrite($dschd,"test tes te t");
fclose($dschd);
?>

delete.php

<?
$deschide = opendir("test");
while ($fisier = readdir($deschide)){
if ($fisier != "." && $fisier != ".."){
unlink("test/".$fisier);
}
}
unlink("test");
?>

the message I get is:

Warning: unlink(test) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in C:\www\xampp\htdocs\delete.php on line 8

kakki

are the files in "test" deleted???
from lookin' at php.net i found the funciton rmdir( ... )

http://php.net/manual/function.rmdir.php

moraru

kakki wrote:
are the files in "test" deleted???
from lookin' at php.net i found the funciton rmdir( ... )

http://php.net/manual/function.rmdir.php

I've made a small mistake, by using unlink to remove a directory, but now I've fix that problem.

here is the code now:

<?
$deschide = opendir("test");
while ($fisier = readdir($deschide)){
if ($fisier != "." && $fisier != ".."){
unlink("test/".$fisier);
}
}
rmdir("test");
?>

BUT the files are deleted but can't remove the directory.

Warning: rmdir(test) [function.rmdir]: Permission denied in C:\www\xampp\htdocs\delete.php on line 8

moraru

it looks like i cant delete de directory because of opendir() even after I try closedir() the rmdir doesn't work.

<?
$deschide = opendir("test");
while ($fisier = readdir($deschide)){
if ($fisier != "." && $fisier != ".."){
unlink("test/".$fisier);
}
}
closedir($deschide);
rmdir("test");
?>

If i put only

<?
rmdir("test");
?>

it's deleting the direcotry without any problems.

So.... it seams that the php doesn't have time to closedir() that fast so I can use rmdir() immediatelly.

any fix on this one?

kakki

maybe "sleep( xxx ) " will be a work-around

lestat

I just ran in to this myself. After many hours of banging my head, this is what I found(I think it's windows server related):

<?php

if(is_dir($path)){
  rmdir($path);
}
?>

I think that its because of types, here.

rmdir($path); <--- $path is a string
is_dir($path); <-- tells php it's a dir

Hope it helps you!