Answers for "delete file in php from a folder"

php how to delete file

if(file_exists($file)) {
	unlink($file);
}

php delete a folder

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);
}

delete file in php

unlink(filepath);

php delete file

// delete file function, if silent is false, function will throw exception
function deleteFile($fullFileName, $silent=0) {
  if (file_exists($fullFileName)) {
    unlink($fullFileName);
    return TRUE;
  } else {
    if ($silent == 1) {
      return FALSE;
    } else {
      throw new \InvalidArgumentException('File "'.$fullFileName.'" not exists.');
    }
  }
}