PHP recursive delete function

Question

I wrote recursive PHP function for folder deletion. I wonder, how do I modify this function to delete all files and folders in webhosting, excluding given array of files and

Answer 1

Try something like this:

$it = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(
  new RecursiveDirectoryIterator('%yourBaseDir%'),
  RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST
);

$excludeDirsNames = array();
$excludeFileNames = array('.htaccess');

foreach($it as $entry) {
  if ($entry->isDir()) {
    if (!in_array($entry->getBasename(), $excludeDirsNames)) {
      try {
        rmdir($entry->getPathname());
      }
      catch (Exception $ex) {
        // dir not empty
      }
    }
  }
  elseif (!in_array($entry->getFileName(), $excludeFileNames)) {
    unlink($entry->getPathname());
  }
}