PHP Script Deletion

[Latox]

I want to set up a script which I can run at about 4PM every day on a cron, to delete folders.

I have a script which puts files into a folder according to date.

For example:

The date is 4th May, the folder name 04_05
The date is 5th May, the folder name 05_05

So on and so forth.

On the 5th May, I want a cron to run to delete the folder 04_05 and all files under it (as the folder the day before is no use now as todays folder has been created and everything runs through this.)

Basically, I just want a script which will run on day 2, and delete the day 1 folder.

Any help is very much appreciated.

[Dan Grossman]

exec("rm -rf /home/example/" . date("d_m", strtotime("yesterday"))); 

Although you could easily skip the PHP here and code the date calculation as a pure bash script

[Latox]

Yeah I've been using shell to delete the folders so far, the folders reach about 100GB of disk space per folder per day... getting too busy I need to start freeing up space daily using a cron.

Thanks for your help, I will have a go with this. Much appreciated.