# Rmdir-script problems

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rmdir-script-problems/25967>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 18, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rmdir-script-problems/25967 "2003-07-18T02:13:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Danneman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b19c9b/32.png) [@Danneman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Danneman)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rmdir-script-problems/25967/1 "2003-07-18T02:13:45Z")

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Im trying to get this very basic script to work.

It should delete all the files within a specified folder, and then remove the folder itself, but it just wont work.

```php

<?php 
// DELETE DIRECTORY (not working) 

// Folders name
$Folder = $_POST['NewsPage'];   

// Changes folders access rights
chmod($Folder, 0777);             

// Checks if really a folder
if (is_dir($Folder)) { 
  // Opens folder
  $handle = opendir($Folder);     
  // Reads folders content   
  while($filename = readdir($handle)) {        
     if (($filename != ".") && ($filename != "..")) { 
          // Deletes files
          delete($Folder."/".$filename); 
     } 
  } 
  closedir($handle);              
  // Now that folder empty - delete it too
  rmdir($Folder);              
} 
else {                 
  unlink($Folder);              
} 

?> 

```

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rmdir-script-problems/25967/2 "2003-07-18T03:05:33Z")

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are you getting errors? if so what errors?

if not then what does the script do? anything at all?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rmdir-script-problems/25967/3 "2003-07-19T01:23:28Z")

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Well, it didnt do anything at all. But I tried “unlink” instead of “delete” and got the script running 🙂