How to delete the specific files and folders that begin and cotains with some numbers and titles?

Question

I came up with this questioin. My background is from the Node.js. I am not usually quite used to be in PHP. That's why I'm aksing this question to solve the current issues.

The issues is that's to says I have certain Files and Folders that contains with a specific letters and number at the beginning. As you can see given by down below with a scrrenshot.

I just learn and writing some php code that I grabbed it from the internet resources. Take a look at what's my code:

1. I want this to detele this all folders which contains letters "exp_" and all the files names start with this numbers "xx-xx-xx" etc.

2. I created delete.php. When I'd called this file via the browser, I want to achieve to delete all the files and folder which for the No. 1 case.

3. All these folders and files are generated in everdays. That's why I do want to clean all those data.

<?php
$path = "test";

if(!unlink($path)){
 echo "File has not deleted yet.";
} else {
 echo "Successfully deleted!";
}

?>

Is there any how any solution to solve this issues? I will appreciate all in advanced who are giving me idea and suggestions from you guys.

Answer 1

You can do something like this:

$files = new DirectoryIterator(__DIR__);
foreach ($files as $file) {  
    if ( ($file->isDir() and strpos($file->getFilename(),'exp_')!==false) || ($file->isFile() and $file->getFilename() == date('d-m-Y') )  ) {
        unlink($file->getPathname());
    } 
}

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Thus, all folders with names like exp_ and files with today's date will be deleted.