How To Delete Folder using PHP

Hi Guys, in this article, we will show you How To Delete Folder using PHP. this article we use rmdir() Function to delete local directory or server side easily. To delete all files and directories in all sub-directories, we can make use of recursion.

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How To Delete Folder using PHP

1 – Creating Index Page

Here we are going to create an interface to get all folders and creating a remove button to delete easily. here the source code you can save it as index.php in your project folder.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
	<head>
		<title>How TO Delete Folder using PHP</title>
		<meta charset="UTF-8" name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/>
		<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/bootstrap.css"/>
		<style type="text/css">
			body{
				margin-top:150px;
				}
			.well{
				-webkit-box-shadow: 1px 2px 11px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.75);
				-moz-box-shadow: 1px 2px 11px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.75);
				box-shadow: 1px 2px 11px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.75);
				}
		</style>
	</head>
	
	
<body>
	
	<div class="col-md-3"></div>
	<div class="col-md-6 well">
		<h3 class="text-success">How TO Delete Folder using PHP</h3>
		<hr style="border-top:1px dotted #ccc;"/>
		<table class="table table-bordered">
			<thead class="alert-success">
				<tr>
					<th>Folder Name</th>
					<th>Action</th>
				</tr>
			</thead>
			<tbody style="background-color:#fff;">
				<?php
					$files = scandir('files/');
					foreach ($files as $file){
						if($file != '.' && $file !='..'){
				?>
				<tr>
					<td><img src="img/folder.png"> <?php echo $file?></td>
					<td><a class="btn btn-danger" href="delete.php?directory=<?php echo $file?>">Remove</a></td>
				</tr>
				<?php
						}
					}
				?>
			</tbody>
		</table>
	</div>
</body>	
</html>

<!DOCTYPE html>

<head>

<title>How TO Delete Folder using PHP</title>

body{

margin-top:150px;

}

.well{

-webkit-box-shadow: 1px 2px 11px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.75);

-moz-box-shadow: 1px 2px 11px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.75);

box-shadow: 1px 2px 11px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.75);

}

</style>

</head>

<body>

<h3 class="text-success">How TO Delete Folder using PHP</h3>

<tr>

<th>Folder Name</th>

<th>Action</th>

</tr>

</thead>

<?php

$files = scandir('files/');

foreach ($files as $file){

if($file != '.' && $file !='..'){

<tr>

<td><a class="btn btn-danger" href="delete.php?directory=<?php echo $file?>">Remove</a></td>

</tr>

<?php

}

</tbody>

</table>

</div>

</body>

</html>

2 – Delete Folder using PHP

here we are creating the main function of this project. and this step, we use rmdir() Function to delete local or server-side directory and its content. here the source code you can save it as delete.php in your project folder.

<?php
	if(ISSET($_REQUEST['directory'])){
		$directory = $_REQUEST['directory'];
		if(file_exists("files/".$directory)){
			removeDir("files/".$directory);
			header("location: index.php");
		}
	}
	
	function removeDir($dir) {
		$items = scandir($dir);
		foreach ($items as $item) {
			if ($item === '.' || $item === '..') {
				continue;
			}
			$path = $dir.'/'.$item;
			if (is_dir($path)) {
				xrmdir($path);
			} else {
				unlink($path);
			}
		}
		rmdir($dir);
	}
?>

<?php

if(ISSET($_REQUEST['directory'])){

$directory = $_REQUEST['directory'];

if(file_exists("files/".$directory)){

removeDir("files/".$directory);

header("location: index.php");

}

function removeDir($dir) {

$items = scandir($dir);

foreach ($items as $item) {

if ($item === '.' || $item === '..') {

continue;

}

$path = $dir.'/'.$item;

if (is_dir($path)) {

xrmdir($path);

} else {

unlink($path);

}

rmdir($dir);

}

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