Auto delete all files after x-time

Question

How do you auto delete all files under a sub directory after x-time (let say after 24 hours) - without using a cronjob command from server or pl. How can you do this just us

Answer 1

Here is another example that uses GLOB and it will delete any file

$files = glob('path/to/your/files/*');

foreach($files as $file) { // iterate files
    // if file creation time is more than 5 minutes
    if ((time() - filectime($file)) > 3600) {  // 86400 = 60*60*24
        unlink($file);
    }
}

or if you want to exclude certain files

$files = preg_grep('#\.txt#', glob('/path/to/your/files/*'), PREG_GREP_INVERT);