Delete Files Older than 7 Days Via Cron PHP Job

A tutorial on how to delete files from a specific folder that are older than 7 days via a CRON Job. This is in PHP Language.

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This will show you how to delete files from a certain folder that are older than 7 days. 

$files = glob("folder/*");
	if($files){
		$now   = time();
		  foreach ($files as $file) {
		    if (is_file($file)) {
		      if ($now - filemtime($file) >= 60 * 60 * 24 * 7) { // 2 days
		        unlink($file);
		      }
		    }
		}
	}