cleaning up old files (no sql)

[pmbguy]

////////////////////////////////////////////////////clean old files/////////////////////////////////
// Define the folder to clean
// (keep trailing slashes)
$captchaFolder = 'directory/';

// Filetypes to check (you can also use *.*)
$fileTypes = '*.bak';

// Here you can define after how many
// minutes the files should get deleted
$expire_time = 20;

// Find all files of the given file type
foreach (glob($captchaFolder . $fileTypes) as $Filename) {

// Read file creation time
$FileCreationTime = filectime($Filename);

// Calculate file age in seconds
$FileAge = time() - $FileCreationTime;

// Is the file older than the given time?
if ($FileAge > ($expire_time * 60)){

// Now do something with the olders files...

print "The file $Filename is older than $expire_time minutes\n";

// For example deleting files:
//unlink($Filename);
}

}
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