How to delete all files from a folder using PHP?

Inventing a bulky bike. Here is the fastest and easiest way:

 function clear() { if (file_exists('/cache/')) { foreach (glob('/cache/*') as $file) { unlink($file); } } } 

And that's all. Then call where and when needed. For example, if it is Wordpress, you hang up add_action('save_post','clear') .

Rough approach, very rude:

 $baseDir = "./"; exec("rm -f " .$baseDir . "/dir/*"); 

This will only work in Linux. Once again, the approach is very rough and it is better not to use this EVER.

Probably, everything is much simpler. ISPManager crookedly changes the php config by disabling the session garbage collector.

Open php config. By default /etc/php.d/apache/php.ini

Change session.gc_probability=0 to 1

Restart appetch /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Everything, garbage collection again - php business.

Delete php means all at once will not work. Only in the loop. Perhaps you should look towards the demons, as @Inart said.
Code for pkhp:

 function cleanDir($dir) { $files = glob($dir."/*"); $c = count($files); if (count($files) > 0) { foreach ($files as $file) { if (file_exists($file)) { unlink($file); } } } } 

 array_map('unlink', glob('./cache/*')); 

And try not to remove it all at once, but gradually. That is, the PHP script of each user who came to your site will delete, for example, 1000 files each, until they remain at all. This is not difficult to do. One XML file is enough (the database is not necessary to use here) with two entries - how much is left and the second - whether it is necessary to delete.

I have deleted everything with this script ... cleaned up ... along with the site.

 if ($ objs = glob ($ dir. "/ *")) {
     echo $ objs;
     foreach ($ objs as $ obj) {
         if (is_dir ($ obj)) {

         } else {
             unlink ($ obj);
         }
     }
 }
 rmdir ($ dir);