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PHP Empty folder not deleting with rmdir command


My code is as below:

<?php
    header("Location: ../");
    unlink("index.php");
    unlink("style.css");
    unlink("success.php");
    unlink("fail.php");
    unlink("remove.php");
    unlink("README.md");
    unlink(".gitignore");
    unlink(".git");
    rmdir("../Humble-Installer");
    die();

But every time I run it I receive the following error:

[17-Nov-2014 19:47:37 Pacific/Auckland] PHP Warning:  unlink(.git): Operation not permitted in /Users/user/Humble/admin/Humble-Installer/remove.php on line 10
[17-Nov-2014 19:47:37 Pacific/Auckland] PHP Warning:  rmdir(../Humble-Installer): Directory not empty in /Users/user/Humble/admin/Humble-Installer/remove.php on line 11

I have no idea, the directory is empty but will not delete... even if I remove the unlink(."git"); it still throws an error?

Cheers.


Solution

  • You can use this simple function to delete folder recursively:

    function rrmdir($dir) { 
        if (is_dir($dir)) { 
            $objects = scandir($dir); 
            foreach ($objects as $object) { 
                if ($object != "." && $object != "..") { 
                    if (filetype($dir."/".$object) == "dir") rrmdir($dir."/".$object); else unlink($dir."/".$object); 
                } 
            }
            reset($objects); 
            rmdir($dir); 
        }
    }
    

    Notes:

    unlink is for a file, .git is a directory, so it won't remove, use rmdir. If you want to do it recursively, use function I wrote above.

    Update

    If you want to use RecursiveIteratorIterator, you can use this function:

    /**
     * Remove directory recursively.
     *
     * @param string $dirPath Directory you want to remove.
     */
    function recursive_rmdir($dirPath)
    {
        foreach (new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($dirPath, FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS), RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST) as $path) {
            $pathName = $path->getPathname();
    
            echo $pathName."\n";
    
            ($path->isDir() and ($path->isLink() === false)) ? rmdir($pathName) : unlink($pathName);
        }
    }