Comments on: Recursively deleting directories via FTP

By: Monkhorst

Monkhorst — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:33:16 +0000

Unfortunately, on windows the recursive option of ftp_rawlist() does not work (at least not on my machine and Turigeza’s).
The function above can be altered a bit to be recursive. This solves the issue.

I can’t post the entire function, but here is the change:
Reverse the order of the files and folder handling and replace with:

// delete the subfolders recursively
foreach ($folders as $folder) {
self::ftp_rmdirr($ftp_stream, $folder);
}

// then delete all the files
foreach ($files as $file) {
ftp_delete($ftp_stream, $file);
}

Hope this helps – Monkhorst

By: theo

theo — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:33:17 +0000

im having some issues i put the directory but it tries to delete everything form outside the folder and then it goes into the folder and tries to find the folders that are actually outside the folder?

By: Marke

Marke — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:32:46 +0000

So cool.

By: Saudi

Saudi — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:23:36 +0000

Hello,
Thanks for great function.

By: Juha Halmu

Juha Halmu — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:53:40 +0000

(bad english:)Don’t know if I have “old server” in use. There is no effect if inner folders have less permissions like 644?

By: Aidan Lister

Aidan Lister — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:52:57 +0000

It seems that some FTP servers don’t support the recursive raw listing. From what I can tell, this is a small number of old servers. In these cases, the function above won’t work.

By: Turigeza

Turigeza — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:35:45 +0000

to add I’m on Windows XP and PHP 5.0.4
an it seems the recursive parameter for the ftp_rawlist() makes no diffrence for me ?? so that’s why your function didn’t work.

By: Turigeza

Turigeza — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:04:17 +0000

Doesn’t recursive mean that the function will call itself ??

This function doesn’t work for me
folder/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/
ftp_rmdirr($ftp_stream, ‘folder/folder1′)
won’t delete folder1 and says directory is not empty