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Hello coders,

Here’s a snippet that can help you to remove a non-empty directory from the server. It’s a recursive function that deletes the directory with its files, folders and sub-folders.

<?php
function delete_directory($dir)
{
if ($handle = opendir($dir))
{
$array = array();

    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
        if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {

			if(is_dir($dir.$file))
			{
				if(!@rmdir($dir.$file)) // Empty directory? Remove it
				{
                delete_directory($dir.$file.'/'); // Not empty? Delete the files inside it
				}
			}
			else
			{
               @unlink($dir.$file);
			}
        }
    }
    closedir($handle);

	@rmdir($dir);
}

}

$dir = '/home/path/to/mysite.com/folder_to_delete/'; // IMPORTANT: with '/' at the end

$remove_directory = delete_directory($dir);
?>

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