How to delete all the files in a directory using PHP ?

We have seen how a file can be deleted by using unlink function in PHP. The same function can be used along with directory handler to list and delete all the files present inside. We have discussed how to display all the files present inside a directory. Now let us try to develop a function and to this function we will post directory name as parameter and the function will use unlink command to remove files by looping through all the files of the directory.



Here is the code to this.

function EmptyDir($dir) {
$handle=opendir($dir);

while (($file = readdir($handle))!==false) {
echo "$file
";
@unlink($dir.'/'.$file);
}

closedir($handle);
}

EmptyDir('images');


Here images is the directory name we want to empty

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