A recursive remove directory function for PHP?

Question

I am using PHP to move the contents of a images subfolder

GalleryName/images/

into another folder. After the move, I need to del

Answer 1

I prefer an enhaced method derived from the php help pages http://php.net/manual/en/function.rmdir.php#115598

 // check accidential empty, root or relative pathes
 if (!empty($path) && ...)
 {
  if (PHP_OS === 'Windows')
  {
    exec('rd /s /q "'.$path.'"');
  }
  else
  {
      exec('rm -rf "'.$path.'"');
  }
}
else
{
    error_log('path not valid:$path'.var_export($path, true));
}

reasons for my decision:

• less code
• speed
• keep it simple