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Removing the __MACOSX folder with PHP?

Does anyone have experience with deleting a folder __MACOSX

from PHP?

The folder was created after I unpacked the archive, but I cannot delete it.

The function is_dir

returns false to the file, which causes the recursive delete scripts to fail (because there are temp files inside the archive), so the directory is not empty.

I am using the built-in ZipArchive class (extractTo method) in PHP5.

rmdir script I am using one I found on php.net:

<?php
// ensure $dir ends with a slash
function delTree($dir) {
    $files = glob( $dir . '*', GLOB_MARK );
    foreach( $files as $file ){
        if( substr( $file, -1 ) == '/' )
            delTree( $file );
        else
            unlink( $file );
    }
    rmdir( $dir );
}
?>
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I found an improved version of the function from http://www.php.net/rmdir that requires PHP5.

  • This function uses DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR

    instead /

    . PHP detects DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR

    as the correct character for the current OS ('/' or '\').
  • The directory location does not have to end with a forward slash.
  • The function returns true

    or false

    upon completion.


function deleteDirectory($dir) {
    if (!file_exists($dir)) return true;
    if (!is_dir($dir)) return unlink($dir);
    foreach (scandir($dir) as $item) {
        if ($item == '.' || $item == '..') continue;
        if (!deleteDirectory($dir.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$item)) return false;
    }
    return rmdir($dir);
}
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What OS and version are you using?



You need to fix the directory and file paths.

// ensure $dir ends with a slash
function delTree($dir) {

    foreach( $files as $file ){
        if( substr( $file, -1 ) == '/' )
            delTree( $dir.$file );
        else
            unlink( $dir.$file );
    }
    rmdir( $dir );
}
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