file::delete()

file.php

<?php

class file  {
	
	/**
	 * Error code to signal that the file is missing
	 * This is always a positive value because we can
	 * consider files which didn't exist already as 'deleted'.
	 */
	const MISSING = 1;

	/**
	 * Deletes file(s) while gracefully handling "file doesn't exist" errors
	 *
	 * @author  Kemal Delalic
	 * @param   mixed   $file path to file or array of paths
	 * @return  mixed   status or array of statuses
	 * @see     http://php.net/unlink
	 */
	public static function delete($file)
	{
		// Remove arrays of files recursively
		if (is_array($file))
		{
			$result = array();
			
			foreach ($file as $key => $path)
			{
				$result[$path] = file::delete($path);
			}
			
			return $result;
		}
		
		try
		{
			if ( ! file_exists($file))
				return file::MISSING;
				
			return unlink($file);
		}
		catch (Exception $e)
		{
			return FALSE;
		}
	}

}