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

$path = 'folder/subfolder/';

/* foreach (glob($path.'.txt') as $file) { */
foreach (glob($path.'*') as $file) {

    if(time() - filectime($file) > 86400){
      unlink($file);
    }
}