There are at least two options available nowadays.
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Before deleting the folder, delete all its files and folders (and this means recursion!). Here is an example:
public static function deleteDir($dirPath) { if (! is_dir($dirPath)) { throw new InvalidArgumentException("$dirPath must be a directory"); } if (substr($dirPath, strlen($dirPath) - 1, 1) != "https://stackoverflow.com/") { $dirPath .= "https://stackoverflow.com/"; } $files = glob($dirPath . '*', GLOB_MARK); foreach ($files as $file) { if (is_dir($file)) { self::deleteDir($file); } else { unlink($file); } } rmdir($dirPath); }
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And if you are using 5.2+ you can use a RecursiveIterator to do it without implementing the recursion yourself:
$dir="samples" . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'sampledirtree'; $it = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($dir, RecursiveDirectoryIterator::SKIP_DOTS); $files = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($it, RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST); foreach($files as $file) { if ($file->isDir()){ rmdir($file->getRealPath()); } else { unlink($file->getRealPath()); } } rmdir($dir);