I use this 2 functions to delete files and directories recursively. Some of you may find it usefull when

you have to delete a directory which has files and sub directories inside it. Can come in handy i guess :)

  1.  
  2.    //use it like this.
  3.    $dirstodelete = array();
  4.    recursiveDelete("dir/to/delete"); // deletes the files and makes a list of directories to    delete
  5.    delDirs(); //deletion of directories
  6.         //////////////////
  7.         //////////////////
  8.    function recursiveDelete($dir){
  9.         global $dirstodelete;
  10.         $dirstodelete[] = $dir;
  11.         if (is_dir($dir)) {
  12.             if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
  13.                 while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
  14.                     if($file != ‘.’ && $file != ‘..’){
  15.                         $fullpath = $dir."/".$file;
  16.                                                 if(is_dir($fullpath)){
  17.                             recursiveDelete($fullpath);
  18.                             $dirstodelete[] = $fullpath;
  19.                         }else{
  20.                             @unlink($fullpath);
  21.                         }
  22.                     }
  23.                 }
  24.                 closedir($dh);
  25.             }
  26.         }
  27.     }
  28.         //////////////////
  29.         //////////////////
  30.     function delDirs(){
  31.         global $dirstodelete;
  32.                 $dirstodelete = array_reverse($dirstodelete);
  33.         if(count($dirstodelete)){
  34.             foreach($dirstodelete as $onedir){
  35.                 @rmdir($onedir);
  36.             }
  37.         }
  38.     }