I’ve got a client that really wanted to have functionality built into his site that would duplicate a directory and all the files. No big deal except that all the files end up owned by nobody and with the permissions set to 644, which means I can’t delete them via FTP when something goes wrong or they duplicate too many times. I’ve looked in the past for a PHP script that would remove these extra directories without finding anything that would actually help. I circled back on the problem this week and found a great script that actually does a recursive directory delete and was able to remove these annoying folders.

I didn’t write this, but I am going to include the code here in case the original source ever goes offline.

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function RemoveDir($sDir) {
	if (is_dir($sDir)) {
		$sDir = rtrim($sDir, '/');
		$oDir = dir($sDir);
		while (($sFile = $oDir->read()) !== false) {
			if ($sFile != '.' && $sFile != '..') {
				(!is_link("$sDir/$sFile") && is_dir("$sDir/$sFile")) ? RemoveDir("$sDir/$sFile") : unlink("$sDir/$sFile");
			}
		}
		$oDir->close();
		rmdir($sDir);
		return true;
	}
	return false;
}

Source: Ed Eliot

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