Small little trick. You can use a closures in itself via reference.

Example to delete a directory with all subdirectories and files:

<?php
$deleteDirectory = null;
$deleteDirectory = function($path) use (&$deleteDirectory) {
    $resource = opendir($path);
    while (($item = readdir($resource)) !== false) {
        if ($item !== "." && $item !== "..") {
            if (is_dir($path . "/" . $item)) {
                $deleteDirectory($path . "/" . $item);
            } else {
                unlink($path . "/" . $item);
            }
        }
    }
    closedir($resource);
    rmdir($path);
};
$deleteDirectory("path/to/directoy");
?>