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

I'm using this function to delete the folder with all files and subfolders:

function removedir($dir) {
    if (substr($dir, strlen($dir) - 1, 1) != '/')
        $dir .= '/';
    if ($handle = opendir($dir)) {
        while ($obj = readdir($handle)) {
            if ($obj != '.' && $obj != '..') {
                if (is_dir($dir . $obj)) {
                    if (!removedir($dir . $obj))
                        return false;
                }
                else if (is_file($dir . $obj)) {
                    if (!unlink($dir . $obj))
                        return false;
                }
            }
        }
        closedir($handle);
        if (!@rmdir($dir))
            return false;
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

$folder_to_delete = "folder"; // folder to be deleted

echo removedir($folder_to_delete) ? 'done' : 'not done';

Iirc I got this from php.net