How to Delete Directory with Files in PHP?

This article will provide some of the most important example how to delete directory with files in php. step by step explain php remove dir and all contents. you can see how to delete all files and folder in a folder php. This tutorial will give you simple example of php delete directory and files in directory.

Sometime, we need to delete all files and directory in a directory using php code. so in this post i will help you how to remove folder with all contents inside that folder.

Let's see both example that will helps you.

Example 1:

Code:

<?php
  
$folderName = 'images';
  
removeFolder($folderName);
   
function removeFolder($folderName) {
         if (is_dir($folderName))
           $folderHandle = opendir($folderName);
  
         if (!$folderHandle)
              return false;
  
         while($file = readdir($folderHandle)) {
               if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
                    if (!is_dir($folderName."/".$file))
                         unlink($folderName."/".$file);
                    else
                         removeFolder($folderName.'/'.$file);
               }
         }
  
         closedir($folderHandle);
         rmdir($folderName);
         return true;
}
  
?>

Example 2:

Code:

<?php
  
$folderName = 'images2';
  
removeFiles($folderName);
   
function removeFiles($target) {
    if(is_dir($target)){
        $files = glob( $target . '*', GLOB_MARK );
  
        foreach( $files as $file ){
            removeFiles( $file );      
        }
  
        rmdir( $target );
    } elseif(is_file($target)) {
        unlink( $target );  
    }
}
  
?>

I hope it can help you...