How to delete all files and subfolders from a directory?

Question

I have a file storage site, and with time it moves inactive files to a folder: www.site.com/files/_deleted/, when it moves the files it creates a subfolder for each of them... It has how I run a code PHP to delete all contents of this folder, but not erase her herself?

Blot out FTP it takes long.... By PHP I could even create a cron to run at a certain time.

Can someone help me ?

Answer 1

You can list all files within this directory and delete them that way:

$arquivos = scandir(www.site.com/files/_deleted/);

foreach ($arquivos as $arquivo){

    // Verifica se é uma subpasta e apaga os arquivos dentro
    foreach (scandir($arquivo) as $item) {
        unlink($item);
    }

    // Se não for uma pasta, exclui o arquivo
    if (!is_dir($arquivo)) {
        unlink($arquivo);
    }

    // Por fim, apaga a pasta
    rmdir($arquivo);
}

More simply, you can use OS commands to delete the folder, but this solution only works on LINUX (I think)

$dir = 'www.site.com/files/_deleted/*';
// chama o comando do SO
system('rm -rf ' . escapeshellarg($dir), $retorno);
// esse comando linux retorna 0 quando sucesso
if( $retorno == 0) echo "Excluido com sucesso";