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Recursively delete a directory and all of it's contents - USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
<?php
use RecursiveDirectoryIterator;
use RecursiveIteratorIterator;
use SplFileInfo;
# http://stackoverflow.com/a/3352564/283851
/**
* Recursively delete a directory and all of it's contents - e.g.the equivalent of `rm -r` on the command-line.
* Consistent with `rmdir()` and `unlink()`, an E_WARNING level error will be generated on failure.
*
* @param string $dir absolute path to directory to delete
*
* @return bool true on success; false on failure
*/
function rm_r($dir)
{
if (false === file_exists($dir)) {
return false;
}
/** @var SplFileInfo[] $files */
$files = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(
new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($dir, RecursiveDirectoryIterator::SKIP_DOTS),
RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST
);
foreach ($files as $fileinfo) {
if ($fileinfo->isDir()) {
if (false === rmdir($fileinfo->getRealPath())) {
return false;
}
} else {
if (false === unlink($fileinfo->getRealPath())) {
return false;
}
}
}
return rmdir($dir);
}
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Thanks for this.

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ghost commented Mar 24, 2017

Thanks for sharing but man that's an ugly code repetition and there's a bug in the way you use file_exists (should be is_dir otherwise your code will try to scan a file and then try to rmdir a file at the end, both of which bug out), and it also prints ugly errors on failures... This is mine:

    /**
     * Recursively deletes a directory tree.
     *
     * @param string $folder         The directory path.
     * @param bool   $keepRootFolder Whether to keep the top-level folder.
     *
     * @return bool TRUE on success, otherwise FALSE.
     */
    function deleteTree(
        $folder,
        $keepRootFolder = false)
    {
        // Handle bad arguments.
        if (empty($folder) || !file_exists($folder)) {
            return true; // No such file/folder exists.
        } elseif (is_file($folder) || is_link($folder)) {
            return @unlink($folder); // Delete file/link.
        }

        // Delete all children.
        $files = new \RecursiveIteratorIterator(
            new \RecursiveDirectoryIterator($folder, \RecursiveDirectoryIterator::SKIP_DOTS),
            \RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST
        );

        foreach ($files as $fileinfo) {
            $action = ($fileinfo->isDir() ? 'rmdir' : 'unlink');
            if (!@$action($fileinfo->getRealPath())) {
                return false; // Abort due to the failure.
            }
        }

        // Delete the root folder itself?
        return (!$keepRootFolder ? @rmdir($folder) : true);
    }

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