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copied!<p>Sure, you'd have to use <code>unlink()</code> and <code>rmdir()</code>, and you'd need a recursive directory removal function because <code>rmdir()</code> doesn't work on directories with files in them. You'd also want to make sure that the deletion script is really secure to stop people from just deleting everything.</p> <p>Something like this for the recursive function:</p> <pre><code>function Remove_Dir($dir) { $error = array(); if(is_dir($dir)) { $files = scandir($dir); //scandir() returns an array of all files/directories in the directory foreach($files as $file) { $fullpath = $dir . "/" . $file; if($file == '..' || $file == '.') { continue; //Skip if ".." or "." } elseif(is_dir($fullpath)) { Remove_Dir($fullpath); //recursively remove nested directories if directory } elseif(is_file($fullpath)) { unlink($fullpath); //Delete file otherwise } else { $error[] = 'Error on ' . $fullpath . '. Not Directory or File.' //Should be impossible error, because everything in a directory should be a file or directory, or . or .., and thus should be covered. } } $files = scandir($dir); //Check directory again if(count($files) > 2) //if $files contains more than . and .. { Remove_Dir($dir); } else { rmdir($dir); //Remove directory once all files/directories are removed from within it. } if(count($error) != 0) {return $error;} else {return true;} } } </code></pre> <p>Then you just need to pass the file or directory to be deleted through GET or something to the script, probably require <code>urlencode()</code> or something for that, make sure that it's an authorized user with permissions to delete trying to delete the stuff, and <code>unlink()</code> if it's a file, and <code>Remove_Dir()</code> if it's a directory.</p> <p>You should have to prepend the full path to the directory or file to the directory/file in the script before removing the directory/file.</p> <p>Some things you'll want for security is firstly making sure that the deletion is taking place in the place it's supposed to, so someone can't do <code>?dir=/</code> or something and attempt to delete the entire filesystem from root, which can probably be circumvented by prepending the appropriate path onto the input with something like <code>$dir = '/home/user/public_html/directories/' . $_GET['dir'];</code>, of course then they can potentially delete everything in that path, which means that you need to make sure that the user is authorized to do so.</p> <p>Need to keep periodic backups of files just in case.</p>

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