Delete Directory and directories inside

Question

I want to delete a directory and all it's subdirectories.

$folders('users','users/100282','users/100282/test');
array_map("rmdir",array_reverse($folders));

Unfortunately this doesn't work. I get 2 errors saying that the directory is not empty. If i refresh, only 1 error, if I refresh once more, no more errors.

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What's happening is that the script attempts to remove the parent directory before the previous task is ececuted, which renders the folder non-empty. How do I fix this?

Answer 1

How abouts something like this using RecursiveIteratorIterator:

<?php 
/**
 * Recursive directory remover.
 *
 * @param string $dir
 * @return bool
 */
function destroy_dir($dir) {
    foreach(new RecursiveIteratorIterator(
                new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($dir, FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS),
                RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST) as $path) {

        //remove file or folder
        $path->isFile() ? unlink($path->getPathname()) : rmdir($path->getPathname());
    }
    return rmdir($dir);
}

//usage
$dir = './users';
//checks
if(is_dir($dir)){
    //call
    if(destroy_dir($dir)){
        //directory removed
    }else{
        //error removing directory
    }
}else{
    //users directory not found
}

?>