Delete Folder

I created a client page that allows my clients to create a project, the page allows them to create a project, give details and then creates a folder that they can upload files in to.

My issue is once I've viewed and downloaded the files I want to clear the files and the created folder off the server. I can delete the files without any trouble. I just don't see a way to delete the newly created folder after the files have been deleted. Can digital file pro do this, or is there some other way this is handled?

You would have to do it manually. It should be easy enough to do... if you use the function:

rmdir("foldername");

That will remove a directory as long as it is empty.

Thank you that seemed to work.

<?php $folder = 2; ?>
<?php
rmdir($folder);
?>

How would I change the path to the folder? From my admin folder the path would be
../clientuploads/thefoldername

Thanks, hope you are mending.

I'm not sure I understand the question. There is no trick to it, you can put in the full path and use ../ to navigate to sub directories.

<?php
rmdir($folder);
?>
$folder is the dynamic name of the folder, but it is inside the same directory as the admin page that I'm deleting from. So my question is how do I apply the path to the folder?

Maybe this?

<?php
rmdir(../clientuploads/$folder);
?>

I see... yes something like that:


<?php
rmdir("../clientuploads/" . $folder);
?>

Here is what I came up with.

<form method="post">
<input name="delete" type="submit" class="Button" value="Delete Folder">
</form>
<?php
if(isset($_POST['delete']))
{
rmdir("../clientuploads/" . $folder);
}
?>

This seems to work. I'm using Digital File Pro to delete the files before I delete the folder. Is it possible to add this to the Digital File Pro code to delete the folder once the files are deleted. Or can I only create another button to delete the folder separately?

Here is the Digital File Pro code.

<?php
if (isset($_POST["DeleteButton"]) || isset($_POST["DeleteButton_x"])) {
$UpdateQuery = new WA_MySQLi_Query($connSiteDB);
$UpdateQuery->Action = "update";
$UpdateQuery->Table = "clientuploads";
$UpdateQuery->bindColumn("clientuploadComplete", "s", "".((isset($_POST["Complete"]))?$_POST["Complete"]:"") ."", "WA_BLANK");
$UpdateQuery->addFilter("clientuploadID", "=", "i", "".((isset($_POST["projectID"]))?$_POST["projectID"]:"") ."");
$UpdateQuery->execute();
$UpdateGoTo = "manage_client_projects.php?clientID=".($rsProject->getColumnVal("clientuploadClientID")) ."";
if (function_exists("rel2abs")) $UpdateGoTo = $UpdateGoTo?rel2abs($UpdateGoTo,dirname(__FILE__)):"";
$UpdateQuery->redirect($UpdateGoTo);
}
?>
<?php
$WA_DeleteFileResult1 = false;
if(isset($_POST["DeleteButton"]) || isset($_POST["DeleteButton_x"])){
$WA_DeleteFileResult1 = WA_FileAssist_DeleteFile("../clientuploads/".($rsProject->getColumnVal("clientuploadID")) ."", "".($rsUploadedFiles->getColumnVal("clientfiles1")) ."");
}
?>
<?php
$WA_DeleteFileResult1 = false;
if(isset($_POST["DeleteButton"]) || isset($_POST["DeleteButton_x"])){
$WA_DeleteFileResult1 = WA_FileAssist_DeleteFile("../clientuploads/".($rsProject->getColumnVal("clientuploadID")) ."", "".($rsUploadedFiles->getColumnVal("clientfiles2")) ."");
}
?>
<?php
$WA_DeleteFileResult1 = false;
if(isset($_POST["DeleteButton"]) || isset($_POST["DeleteButton_x"])){
$WA_DeleteFileResult1 = WA_FileAssist_DeleteFile("../clientuploads/".($rsProject->getColumnVal("clientuploadID")) ."", "".($rsUploadedFiles->getColumnVal("clientfiles3")) ."");
}
?>
<?php
$WA_DeleteFileResult1 = false;
if(isset($_POST["DeleteButton"]) || isset($_POST["DeleteButton_x"])){
$WA_DeleteFileResult1 = WA_FileAssist_DeleteFile("../clientuploads/".($rsProject->getColumnVal("clientuploadID")) ."", "".($rsUploadedFiles->getColumnVal("clientfiles4")) ."");
}
?>
<?php
$WA_DeleteFileResult1 = false;
if(isset($_POST["DeleteButton"]) || isset($_POST["DeleteButton_x"])){
$WA_DeleteFileResult1 = WA_FileAssist_DeleteFile("../clientuploads/".($rsProject->getColumnVal("clientuploadID")) ."", "".($rsUploadedFiles->getColumnVal("clientfiles5")) ."");
}
?>

You could probably just add it manually after the delete file like:

<?php

$WA_DeleteFileResult1 = false;

if(isset($_POST["DeleteButton"]) || isset($_POST["DeleteButton_x"])){

$WA_DeleteFileResult1 = WA_FileAssist_DeleteFile("../clientuploads/".($rsProject->getColumnVal("clientuploadID")) ."", "".($rsUploadedFiles->getColumnVal("clientfiles1")) ."");

@rmdir("../clientuploads/" . $rsProject->getColumnVal("clientuploadID"));

}

?>

That would remove the folder if it was empty after deleting the file and do nothing if there were still files in that folder.

Thanks, this worked perfectly.