I am working on a PHP function that will recursively remove all sub-folders that contain no files starting from a given absolute path.

Here is the code developed so far:

function RemoveEmptySubFolders($starting_from_path) {

    // Returns true if the folder contains no files
    function IsEmptyFolder($folder) {
        return (count(array_diff(glob($folder.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."*"), Array(".", ".."))) == 0);
    }

    // Cycles thorugh the subfolders of $from_path and
    // returns true if at least one empty folder has been removed
    function DoRemoveEmptyFolders($from_path) {
        if(IsEmptyFolder($from_path)) {
            rmdir($from_path);
            return true;
        }
        else {
            $Dirs = glob($from_path.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR."*", GLOB_ONLYDIR);
            $ret = false;
            foreach($Dirs as $path) {
                $res = DoRemoveEmptyFolders($path);
                $ret = $ret ? $ret : $res;
            }
            return $ret;
        }
    }

    while (DoRemoveEmptyFolders($starting_from_path)) {}
}

As per my tests this function works, though I would be very delighted to see any ideas for better performing code.