If use this function to remove a directory + all files inside.
function delete_files($target)
{
if(is_dir($target))
{
$files = glob($target . '*', GLOB_MARK);
foreach($files as $file)
{
delete_files($file);
}
rmdir($target);
}
elseif(is_file($target))
{
unlink($target);
}
}
delete_files($directory);
But whenever I do this, I get this error message:
Warning: rmdir(directory/12) [function.rmdir]: No such file or directory in delete_files.php
"directory/12" is the correct name of the directory I wanted to delete. I don't understand why it says that it does not exist because it does! Weirdly though, even though I got the error message, the directory DID get deleted.
So I added a line of code print_n($files);
before the for-loop and it game me two arrays -- one containing the directory ("directory/12") and the other containing all the files of the directory ("directory/12/01.gif", "directory/12/02.gif" etc). So I figured the directory must have gotten deleted in the for-loop and removed the line rmdir($target)
and tried it again. This time, all the files within the directory got deleted but the directory itself remained.
So apparently, rmdir DOES indeed remove the directory correctly. But then, why does it give me the error message beforehand that it doesn't exist?