I'm very new to PHP... I mean VERY
In a nutshell, I need help using PHP to delete a folder, and subfolder within that folder... and every file in each.
A little background...
I've been using ASP for a couple of years now in web development and have run across a problem. For various reasons I cannot get ASP to delete a folder on the web server using File System Object.
I've read up on some PHP, but it's still very much like reading greek or latin to me still. I need to get this one page finished... and then hopefully get the heck out of ASP and start learning PHP for good.
I need to know a little bit about how to use unlink() to delete a folder.
The folder will contain .jpg images, as well as a subdirectory called "small" that also contains .jpg thumbnails.
Typically I've used this code in ASP (where "sold" is the variable containing the name of the folder):
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if oDelete.FolderExists (server.mappath("" & sold)) then
oDelete.DeleteFolder (server.mappath("" & sold)), true
else
response.redirect ("page.asp")
end ifI want to do the same thing in PHP and see if it will work.
What I want to do is use my same ASP pages for deleting database entries that pertain to this directory, then redirect to a PHP page and pass the directory name along...
The only thing on the PHP page will be the delete code, and a redirect back. I have no knowledge of PHP functions or syntax, etc.
I'm hoping PHP will be able to do what ASP cannot in this case... or at least I want to give it a try.
This is the closest thing to helpful that I've found so far...
http://us3.php.net/unlink
and it's still confusing me...
Does all this make sense?
Is it nearly as difficult as I've made it sound?
Any help is greatly appreciated...