opendir

    (PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

    opendir — Open directory handle

    Description

    opendir(string $directory, ?resource $context = null): resource|false

    Opens up a directory handle to be used in subsequent closedir(), readdir(), and rewinddir() calls.

    Parameters

    directory

    The directory path that is to be opened

    context

    For a description of the context parameter, refer to the streams section of the manual.

    Return Values

    Returns a directory handle resource on success, or false on failure

    Errors/Exceptions

    Upon failure, an E_WARNING is emitted.

    This may happen if directory is not a valid directory, the directory can not be opened due to permission restrictions, or due to filesystem errors.

    Changelog

    Version Description
    8.0.0 context is now nullable.

    Examples

    Example #1 opendir() example

    <?php
    $dir     = "/etc/php5/";

    // Open a known directory, and proceed to read its contents
    if (is_dir($dir)) {
    if (    $dh = opendir($dir)) {
    while ((    $file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
    echo     "filename: $file : filetype: " . filetype($dir . $file) . "\n";
    }
    closedir($dh);
    }
    }
    ?>

    The above example will output something similar to:

    filename: . : filetype: dir
filename: .. : filetype: dir
filename: apache : filetype: dir
filename: cgi : filetype: dir
filename: cli : filetype: dir

    See Also

    • is_dir() - Tells whether the filename is a directory
    • readdir() - Read entry from directory handle
    • dir() - Return an instance of the Directory class

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    User Contributed Notes 33 notes

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    8
    sergio dot barrios at upr dot edu dot cu
    8 years ago
    iterated function that searches a folder or file in a directory.

    <?php

    $root     = '../Classes';
    $search_parameter = "CachedObjectStorageFactory.php";

    //if we call the function spider as spider($root);
    //will show all the directory content including subdirectories

    //if we call the function spider as spider('../Classes', 'Shared');
    //and will show the address of the directory

    spider($root, $search_parameter);
    closedir();

    function     spider($dir,$fileName=""){

    $handle = opendir($dir);

    while(    $file= readdir($handle)){

    if(    $file != "." && $file != ".."){

    if(    $fileName=="")
    echo     $dir."/".$file."<br>";
    else
    if(    $file == $fileName)
    echo     $dir."/".$file."<br>";


    if(!    is_file($dir."/".$file))
    spider($dir."/".$file,$fileName);

    }
    }

    }

    ?>
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    9
    hz_php at hotmail dot com { hussam alzahabi }
    8 years ago
    Sometimes the programmer needs to access folder content which has arabic name but the opendir function will return null resources id

    for that we must convert the dirname charset from utf-8 to windows-1256 by the iconv function just if the preg_match function detect arabic characters and use " U " additionality to enable multibyte matching

    <?php

    $dir     = ("./"); // on this file dir

    // detect if the path has arabic characters and use " u " optional to enable function to match multibyte characters

    if (preg_match('#[\x{0600}-\x{06FF}]#iu', $dir) )
    {

    // convert input ( utf-8 ) to output ( windows-1256 )

    $dir = iconv("utf-8","windows-1256",$dir);

    }

    if(     is_dir($dir) )
    {


    if( (     $dh = opendir($dir) ) !== null )
    {


    while ( (     $file = readdir($dh) ) !== false )
    {


    echo     "filename: ".$file ." filetype : ".filetype($dir.$file)."<br/>";


    }

    }


    }

    ?>
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    8
    DaveRandom
    15 years ago
    A couple of notes on Matt's posts on Windows Network Drives:

    Since the system() command writes the output of the executed shell command straight to the output buffer, if you wish to hide the return of the mapping command (i.e. "The command completed succesfully" or an error message) from a web browser, you need to alter the command that is sent to the shell so that the output of that command is hidden.

    You probably thinking "why not just use exec()?", and it's a reasonable question, but for some reason it doesn't always work - I guess it's another NT user permissions issue. If you want to guarantee you app will work with no messing around on the host system, use the system() command.

    In the Windows command shell, you can hide the output of a command by sending both the output (1) and error (2) messages to "nul" using pipes, in other words ">nul 2>&1" on the end of the command. The username and password order in the "net use..." command needs switching in Matt's post.

    Here (http://networkm.co.uk/static/drive.html) is a function I wrote to dynamically choose which drive letter to use, based on what is currently mapped and accessible to PHP.

    <?php

    // Define the parameters for the shell command
    $location = "\\servername\sharename";
    $user = "USERNAME";
    $pass = "PASSWORD";
    $letter = "Z";

    // Map the drive
    system("net use ".$letter.": \"".$location."\" ".$pass." /user:".$user." /persistent:no>nul 2>&1");

    // Open the directory
    $dir = opendir($letter.":/an/example/path")

    ...

    ?>
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    sandy at montana-riverboats dot com
    20 years ago
    <?php
    /*
    ** This recursive file lister only slurps in one page at time,
    ** so it doesn't take forever to load when operating over
    ** a large system.....comes with an "Up" link for every page too.
    */

    $PHP_SELF = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
    $DOCUMENT_ROOT = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
    # activate the next line (and deactivate the last) to
    # use this script in a $DOCUMENT_ROOT/~anybody
    # environment.
    #$DOCUMENT_ROOT="/home/sandy/public_html/";

    $tdir = $_GET['dir'];
    echo     "tdir==$tdir<br>";
    $tparent_path = $_GET['parent_path'];
    $dbg = $_GET['dbg'];

    if(!    strstr($tdir, $DOCUMENT_ROOT))
    $tdir = getcwd();
    if(!    strstr($tparent_path, $DOCUMENT_ROOT))
    $tparent_path = $tdir;

    if (!isset (    $tdir))
    {
    $dir = getcwd ();
    }
    else
    $dir = $tdir;

    if (!isset (    $tparent_path))
    {
    $parent_path = $dir;
    }
    else
    $parent_path = $tparent_path;

    echo     "<br>";
    if (!isset (    $tdir))
    {
    $upurl = $PHP_SELF;
    }
    else
    {
    if (    $parent_path == $DOCUMENT_ROOT)
    $parent_parent_path = $parent_path;
    else
    $parent_parent_path = dirname ($parent_path);
    $upurl = $PHP_SELF."?dir=".$parent_path."&parent_path=".
    $parent_parent_path;
    }

    if(    $dbg==1)
    {
    echo     "PHP_SELF: $PHP_SELF<br>\n";
    echo     "DOCUMENT_ROOT: $DOCUMENT_ROOT<br>\n";
    echo     "dir: $dir<br>\n";
    echo     "parent_path: $parent_path<br>\n";
    echo     "upurl: $upurl<br>\n";
    }

    echo     "<a href=\"$upurl\"> <h3>Up</h3> </a>\n";
    echo     "<h2>$dir</h2>\n";

    create_tree ($dir, $parent_path);

    function
    urlFromPath ($path)
    {
    global     $PHP_SELF;
    global     $DOCUMENT_ROOT;
    $prefix = "";
    if (    substr ($path, 0, 1) != "/")
    $prefix = "/";
    $url = $prefix.ereg_replace ($DOCUMENT_ROOT, "", $path);
    return     $url;
    }

    function
    create_tree ($dir, $parent_path)
    {
    if (    $handle = opendir ($dir))
    {
    $i = 0;
    while (    false !== ($file = @readdir ($handle)))
    {
    if (    $file != "." && $file != "..")
    {
    $list[$i] = $file;
    $i++;
    }
    }
    $dir_length = count ($list);
    echo     "<ul>";
    for (    $i = 0; $i < $dir_length; $i++)
    {
    global     $PHP_SELF;
    global     $DOCUMENT_ROOT;
    $label = $list[$i];
    $test = $dir."/".$label;
    $alink = $dir."/".ereg_replace(" ","%20",$label);
    if (!    strstr ($PHP_SELF, $label))
    {
    if (    is_dir ($test))
    {
    $tmp = $PHP_SELF. "?dir=".$alink."&parent_path=".$dir;
    $url = ereg_replace(" ", "%20", $tmp);
    echo     "$url<br>\n";
    echo     "<a href=\"$url\"><b>$label</b>/</a><br>\n";
    }
    else
    {
    $link = urlFromPath ($alink);

    $label = $list[$i];
    echo
    "<a href=\"$link\">".$label."</a><br>\n";
    }
    }
    }
    echo     "</ul>";
    closedir ($handle);
    }
    }

    ?>
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    Alex Dawn
    1 year ago
    <?php

    /**
    * These functions pair up nicely with generators, to hide away
    * all the messy file handlers (a bit like python's with blocks)
    * remove the echos they are just to demo how the generator
    * works with the foreach loop.
    *
    * @param string $filepath
    * @return Generator<string>
    */
    function generateFiles(string $filepath): Generator
    {
    echo     "opening handle" . PHP_EOL;
    $handle = opendir($filepath);
    // looks more complex than needed but the docs says the type check is important
    // https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.readdir.php
    try {
    while (    false !== ($entry = readdir($handle))) {
    yield     $entry;
    }
    } finally {
    closedir($handle);
    echo     "closed handle" . PHP_EOL;
    }
    }

    foreach (    generateFiles('.') as $file) {
    echo     $file . PHP_EOL;
    }
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    Lasse Dalegaard
    19 years ago
    I made a function for finding all files in a specified directory and all subdirectories. It can be quite usefull when searching in alot of files in alot subdirectories. The function returns an array with the path of all the files found.

    <?
    function getFiles($directory) {
    // Try to open the directory
    if($dir = opendir($directory)) {
    // Create an array for all files found
    $tmp = Array();

    // Add the files
    while($file = readdir($dir)) {
    // Make sure the file exists
    if($file != "." && $file != ".." && $file[0] != '.') {
    // If it's a directiry, list all files within it
    if(is_dir($directory . "/" . $file)) {
    $tmp2 = getFiles($directory . "/" . $file);
    if(is_array($tmp2)) {
    $tmp = array_merge($tmp, $tmp2);
    }
    } else {
    array_push($tmp, $directory . "/" . $file);
    }
    }
    }

    // Finish off the function
    closedir($dir);
    return $tmp;
    }
    }

    // Example of use
    print_r(getFiles('.')); // This will find all files in the current directory and all subdirectories
    ?>
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    1
    mstabile75 at gmail dot com
    18 years ago
    In my previous post I ran into a problem with the "global" definition of $directorylist. If I called the function more than once on the same page it would combine the file lists. I looked at Lasse Dalegaard's example and used the following solution.

    remove global definition
    global $directorylist;

    REPLACE
    <?
    if ((($maxlevel) == "all") or ($maxlevel > $level)) {
    filelist($startdir . $file . "/", $searchSubdirs, $directoriesonly, $maxlevel, $level + 1);
    }
    ?>
    WITH
    <?
    if ((($maxlevel) == "all") or ($maxlevel > $level)) {
    $list2 = filelist($startdir . $file . "/", $searchSubdirs, $directoriesonly, $maxlevel, $level + 1);
    if(is_array($list2)) {
    $directorylist = array_merge($directorylist, $list2);
    }
    }
    ?>
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    Peter Hkansson
    16 years ago
    Would you like to view your directories in your browser this script might come in handy.

    <?php
    $sub     = ($_GET['dir']);
    $path = 'enter/your/directory/here/';
    $path = $path . "$sub";
    $dh = opendir($path);
    $i=1;
    while ((    $file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
    if(    $file != "." && $file != "..") {
    if (    substr($file, -4, -3) =="."){
    echo     "$i. $file <br />";
    }else{
    echo     "$i. <a href='?dir=$sub/$file'>$file</a><br />";
    }
    $i++;
    }
    }
    closedir($dh);
    ?>
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    MetaNull
    17 years ago
    An other way to recursively walk a directory and it's content, applying a callback to each file.

    Exemple: Update the last modification time of each file in a folder

    <?php

    clearstatcache    ();

    $sourcepath = "C:/WINDOWS/TEMP";

    // Replace \ by / and remove the final / if any
    $root = ereg_replace( "/$", "", ereg_replace( "[\\]", "/", $sourcepath ));
    // Touch all the files from the $root directory
    if( false === m_walk_dir( $root, "m_touch_file", true )) {
    echo     "'{$root}' is not a valid directory\n";
    }

    // Walk a directory recursivelly, and apply a callback on each file
    function m_walk_dir( $root, $callback, $recursive = true ) {
    $dh = @opendir( $root );
    if(     false === $dh ) {
    return     false;
    }
    while(     $file = readdir( $dh )) {
    if(     "." == $file || ".." == $file ){
    continue;
    }
    call_user_func( $callback, "{$root}/{$file}" );
    if(     false !== $recursive && is_dir( "{$root}/{$file}" )) {
    m_walk_dir( "{$root}/{$file}", $callback, $recursive );
    }
    }
    closedir( $dh );
    return     true;
    }

    // if the path indicates a file, run touch() on it
    function m_touch_file( $path ) {
    echo     $path . "\n";
    if( !    is_dir( $path )) {
    touch( $path );
    }
    }

    ?>
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    chrys at mytechjournal dot com
    18 years ago
    I wrote a function to recursively delete files from a starting directory. I had to do this because my server doesn't allow me to delete files that apache writes because I don't have permissions, so... I let apache do the work.

    <?php
    $dir     = "/path/to/base/dir";

    recursive_delete($dir);

    function     recursive_delete( $dir )
    {
    if (    is_dir($dir)) {
    if (    $dh = opendir($dir)) {
    while ((    $file = readdir($dh)) !== false ) {
    if(     $file != "." && $file != ".." )
    {
    if(     is_dir( $dir . $file ) )
    {
    echo     "Entering Directory: $dir$file<br/>";
    recursive_delete( $dir . $file . "/" );
    echo     "Removing Directory: $dir$file<br/><br/>";
    rmdir( $dir . $file );
    }
    else
    {
    echo     "Deleting file: $dir$file<br/>";
    unlink( $dir . $file );
    }
    }
    }
    closedir($dh);
    }
    }
    }
    ?>
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    mana at averna dot com
    16 years ago
    I was trying to access network drives using this opendir function. I read so many posts saying that it was almost impossible to access a network drive and finally, I found the answer; there are 2 steps to be followed to access a network drive with PHP either on the same machine or another machine.

    But first of all, here's the error I was getting:
    Warning: opendir(\\server\folder1\sub_folder) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: No error in C:\wamp\www\PMOT\v0.1\REPORT_MENU\index.php on line 17

    Firstly, one must make sure that the folder \\server\folder1\sub_folder can be accessed by a user, let's say USER_TEST with a password PASS_TEST. By setting properties to this folder, one can add this given user with the correct password (USER_TEST with PASS_TEST).

    Secondly, the APACHE service must be set-up to take this user into account. If no user is specified, APACHE uses an anonymous user and this is where the problem/error message is coming from. One must go in control panel->administrative tools->services. One will see the list of services and must look for APACHE with Apache/2.X.X in the description. (For Wampserver, it will be called wampapache, and so on!) Right click on that and pop up the properties screen. In the tab LOG ON, there are 2 options: local system account and "this account" which will be a user specified account. This is where one must specify the USER_TEST and PASS_TEST.

    Following these steps worked perfectly for me but if either the folder privileges or apache log on user is disabled, then I get the initial aforementioned error message.

    Anyways, I hope this can help out someone!

    Cheers!

    Marc
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    archipel dot gb at online dot fr
    16 years ago
    Here are two versions of the same function to list all files in a directory tree.

    The first one is recursive (calls itself while going through subdirectories) :
    <?php
    function rec_listFiles( $from = '.')
    {
    if(!     is_dir($from))
    return     false;

    $files = array();
    if(     $dh = opendir($from))
    {
    while(     false !== ($file = readdir($dh)))
    {
    // Skip '.' and '..'
    if( $file == '.' || $file == '..')
    continue;
    $path = $from . '/' . $file;
    if(     is_dir($path) )
    $files += rec_listFiles($path);
    else
    $files[] = $path;
    }
    closedir($dh);
    }
    return     $files;
    }
    ?>

    The second one is iterative (uses less memory) :
    <?php
    function listFiles( $from = '.')
    {
    if(!     is_dir($from))
    return     false;

    $files = array();
    $dirs = array( $from);
    while(     NULL !== ($dir = array_pop( $dirs)))
    {
    if(     $dh = opendir($dir))
    {
    while(     false !== ($file = readdir($dh)))
    {
    if(     $file == '.' || $file == '..')
    continue;
    $path = $dir . '/' . $file;
    if(     is_dir($path))
    $dirs[] = $path;
    else
    $files[] = $path;
    }
    closedir($dh);
    }
    }
    return     $files;
    }
    ?>
    The iterative version should be a little faster most of the time, but the big difference is in the memory usage.

    Here is also a profiling function (works in php5 only) :
    <?php
    function profile( $func, $trydir)
    {
    $mem1 = memory_get_usage();
    echo     '<pre>-----------------------
    Test run for '    .$func.'() ...
    '    ; flush();

    $time_start = microtime(true);
    $list = $func( $trydir);
    $time = microtime(true) - $time_start;

    echo     'Finished : '.count($list).' files</pre>';
    $mem2 = memory_get_peak_usage();

    printf( '<pre>Max memory for '.$func.'() : %0.2f kbytes
    Running time for '    .$func.'() : %0.f s</pre>',
    (    $mem2-$mem1)/1024.0, $time);
    return     $list;
    }
    ?>
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    NerdyDork
    17 years ago
    Here is a snippet to create a site map of all html files in a folder:

    <?php
    // read all html file in the current directory
    if ($dh = opendir('./')) {
    $files = array();
    while ((    $file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
    if (    substr($file, strlen($file) - 5) == '.html') {
    array_push($files, $file);
    }
    }
    closedir($dh);
    }

    // Sort the files and display
    sort($files);
    echo     "<ul>\n";
    foreach (    $files as $file) {
    $title = Title($file);
    echo     "<li><a href=\"$file\" title=\"$title\">$title</a></li>\n";
    }
    echo     "</ul>\n";

    // Function to get a human readable title from the filename
    function Title($filename) {
    $title = substr($filename, 0, strlen($filename) - 5);
    $title = str_replace('-', ' ', $title);
    $title = ucwords($title);
    return     $title;
    }
    ?>
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    tim2005
    18 years ago
    Hello,

    A friend of mine is running a webhost, I think i found a security leak with this script:

    <?php
    function select_files($dir, $label = "", $select_name, $curr_val = "", $char_length = 30) {
    $teller = 0;
    if (    $handle = opendir($dir)) {
    $mydir = ($label != "") ? "<label for=\"".$select_name."\">".$label."</label>\n" : "";
    $mydir .= "<select name=\"".$select_name."\">\n";
    $curr_val = (isset($_REQUEST[$select_name])) ? $_REQUEST[$select_name] : $curr_val;
    $mydir .= ($curr_val == "") ? " <option value=\"\" selected>...\n" : "<option value=\"\">...\n";
    while (    false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
    $files[] = $file;
    }
    closedir($handle);
    sort($files);
    foreach (    $files as $val) {
    if (    is_file($dir.$val)) { // show only real files (ver. 1.01)
    $mydir .= " <option value=\"".$val."\"";
    $mydir .= ($val == $curr_val) ? " selected>" : ">";
    $mydir .= (strlen($val) > $char_length) ? substr($val, 0, $char_length)."...\n" : $val."\n";
    $teller++;
    }
    }
    $mydir .= "</select>";
    }
    if (    $teller == 0) {
    $mydir = "No files!";
    } else {
    return     $mydir;
    }
    }

    echo     select_files("C:/winnt/", "", "", "", "60");
    ?>

    Now i can see hist files in his windows dir. Is this a leak? and is it fixable? I'll report this as bug too!

    Tim2005
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    tozeiler
    18 years ago
    "opendir" said:
    ------------------------------------------------------------------

    23-Jan-2006 08:04
    I Just wanted a directory list and a clickable link to download the files

    <snip>
    ------
    <?
    echo ("<h1>Directory Overzicht:</h1>");

    function getFiles($path) {

    <snip complicated function contents>

    ------------------------------------------------------------------
    Here's a more straightforward way to linkify $path/files:

    <?php

    echo "<h1>Directory Overzicht:</h1>";

    $dh = opendir($path);
    while ((    $file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
    echo     "<a href='$path/$file'>$file</a><br />";
    }
    closedir($dh);

    ?>
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    Anonymous
    19 years ago
    This function sorts files by name as strings, but without regard to case. It also does some handy string formatting of the file size information.

    <?
    function getFiles($path) {
    //Function takes a path, and returns a numerically indexed array of associative arrays containing file information,
    //sorted by the file name (case insensitive). If two files are identical when compared without case, they will sort
    //relative to each other in the order presented by readdir()
    $files = array();
    $fileNames = array();
    $i = 0;

    if (is_dir($path)) {
    if ($dh = opendir($path)) {
    while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
    if ($file == "." || $file == "..") continue;
    $fullpath = $path . "/" . $file;
    $fkey = strtolower($file);
    while (array_key_exists($fkey,$fileNames)) $fkey .= " ";
    $a = stat($fullpath);
    $files[$fkey]['size'] = $a['size'];
    if ($a['size'] == 0) $files[$fkey]['sizetext'] = "-";
    else if ($a['size'] > 1024) $files[$fkey]['sizetext'] = (ceil($a['size']/1024*100)/100) . " K";
    else if ($a['size'] > 1024*1024) $files[$fkey]['sizetext'] = (ceil($a['size']/(1024*1024)*100)/100) . " Mb";
    else $files[$fkey]['sizetext'] = $a['size'] . " bytes";
    $files[$fkey]['name'] = $file;
    $files[$fkey]['type'] = filetype($fullpath);
    $fileNames[$i++] = $fkey;
    }
    closedir($dh);
    } else die ("Cannot open directory: $path");
    } else die ("Path is not a directory: $path");
    sort($fileNames,SORT_STRING);
    $sortedFiles = array();
    $i = 0;
    foreach($fileNames as $f) $sortedFiles[$i++] = $files[$f];

    return $sortedFiles;
    }

    $files = getFiles("C:");
    foreach ($files as $file) print "$file[name]<br>\n";
    ?>
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    iamnotanerd
    19 years ago
    Here is a snippet of the code that I created to search for a file..recursively open the directories and search for a match..

    <?php
    function search($target, $directory){

    if(    is_dir($directory)){
    $direc = opendir($directory);
    while(    false !== ($file = readdir($direc))){

    if(    $file !="." && $file != ".."){

    if(    is_file($directory."/".$file)){
    if(    preg_match("/$target/i", $file)){
    echo     "<a href=\"$directory/$file\">$file</a><br>";
    }
    }else if(    is_dir($directory."/".$file)){
    search($target,$directory."/".$file);

    }

    }
    }
    closedir($direc);
    }

    return ;
    }
    ?>
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    info at 4design dot nu
    21 years ago
    In addition to notes above about IIS & PHP reading network shares, here's one solution that works better for me.

    in the management console I created a folder where my "read_dir" script runs. click on properties then select the security tab. here you can set the anonymous account to the standard IUSR_$computername% , BUT.. in this case I chose another account that I set up for reading my shares. (make sure login name and password match the credantials you set on the remote machin ;-))

    I use this to read a dir and it's contents into a searchable database. and it works like a charm...
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    Matt Grimm
    21 years ago
    Thought I could help clarify something with accessing network shares on a Windows network (2000 in this case), running PHP 4.3.2 under Apache 2.0.44.

    However you are logged into the Windows box, your Apache service must be running under an account which has access to the share. The easiest (and probably least safe) way for me was to change the user for the Apache service to the computer administrator (do this in the service properties, under the "Log On" tab). After restarting Apache, I could access mapped drives by their assigned drive letter ("z:\\") or regular shares by their UNC path ("\\\\shareDrive\\shareDir").
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    hxss at ya dot ru
    7 years ago
    The TRUE recursive map function for working with dirs & files.
    You can create, read(find), update(or move) or delete files/dirs/tree by your callable function.
    You can use flags for select what content you need.

    <?php
    var_dump    (dirmap($dst, function($v) {
    pre($v);
    return     true;
    },     1|2|4|8));

    /**
    * Applies the callback to the entries of the given dir path
    * In accordance with the received flags
    * @param string $path path of the working directory
    * @param Callable $action Callable function that would be
    * executed for every entry in path
    * @param integer $flags can be the following flag:
    * 1: apply Callable function for files
    * 2: apply Callable function for directories
    * 4: apply Callable function for $path
    * 8: work recursively
    * @return bool bitwise AND of all (bool)$action calls results
    */
    function dirmap(string $path, Callable $action, int $flags = 15) {
    $flF = boolval($flags & 1);
    $flD = boolval($flags & 2);
    $flP = boolval($flags & 4);
    $flR = boolval($flags & 8);
    $result = 1;

    if (    is_dir($path)) {

    $dir = opendir($path);
    while (    $entry = readdir($dir))
    if (!    in_array($entry, ['.', '..'])) {
    $fullEntry = "{$path}/{$entry}";

    if (    $flR)
    $result &= dirmap($fullEntry, $action, $flags & 11);

    if (    $flF && is_file($fullEntry) || $flD && is_dir($fullEntry))
    $result &= (bool)call_user_func($action, $fullEntry);
    }

    if (    $flP)
    $result &= (bool)call_user_func($action, $fullEntry);

    return (bool)    $result;
    } else
    return     is_file($path);
    }
    ?>
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    frogstarr78 at yahoo dot com
    17 years ago
    Here's a function that will recrusively turn a directory into a hash of directory hashes and file arrays, automatically ignoring "dot" files.

    <?php
    function hashify_directory($topdir, &$list, $ignoredDirectories=array()) {
    if (    is_dir($topdir)) {
    if (    $dh = opendir($topdir)) {
    while ((    $file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
    if (!(    array_search($file,$ignoredDirectories) > -1) && preg_match('/^\./', $file) == 0) {
    if (    is_dir("$topdir$file")) {
    if(!isset(    $list[$file])) {
    $list[$file] = array();
    }
    ksort($list);
    hashify_directory("$topdir$file/", $list[$file]);
    } else {
    array_push($list, $file);
    }
    }
    }
    closedir($dh);
    }
    }
    }
    ?>

    e.g.
    <?php
    $public_html    ["StudentFiles"] = array();
    hashify_directory("StudentFiles/", $public_html["StudentFiles"]);
    ?>
    on the directory structure:
    ./StudentFiles/tutorial_01/case1/file1.html
    ./StudentFiles/tutorial_01/case1/file2.html
    ./StudentFiles/tutorial_02/case1/file1.html
    ./StudentFiles/tutorial_02/case2/file2.html
    ./StudentFiles/tutorial_03/case1/file2.html
    etc...
    becomes:
    <?php
    print_r    ($public_html);
    /*
    outputs:
    array(
    "StudentFiles" => array (
    "tutorial_01" => array (
    "case1" => array( "file1.html", "file2.html")
    ),
    "tutorial_02" => array (
    "case1" => array( "file1.html"),
    "case2" => array( "file2.html")
    ),
    "tutorial_03" => array (
    "case1" => array( "file2.html")
    )
    )
    )
    */
    ?>
    I'm using it to create a tree view of a directory.
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    phpguy at mailstop dot yogelements dot omitme dot com
    17 years ago
    An issue that I ran into is that opendir() could care less if you've got server authentication set on sub directories and so any such authentication is bypassed completely when accesses in this way. I did solve it for my application of a pretty file manager, by redirecting to all sub directories thusly:
    $fdir = "./subdirectory_I_want_to_visit/";
    if ($fdir != './') { //basically where we are or the parent
    //redirect the browser to force authentication check on any subdirectories
    header("Location: http://my.domain.com".dirname($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]).substr($fdir,2));
    exit;
    } else {
    $dir = opendir($fdir);
    }
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    Madog Llwyd
    15 years ago
    A simple piece to open a directory and display any files with a given extension. Great for things like newsletters, score sheets or the like where you just want to make it easy on the user - they just dump in the file with the correct extension and it's done. A link is given to the file which opens up in a new window.

    <?php
    $current_dir     = "$DOCUMENT_ROOT"."dirname/"; //Put in second part, the directory - without a leading slash but with a trailing slash!
    $dir = opendir($current_dir); // Open the sucker

    echo ("<p><h1>List of available files:</h1></p><hr><br />");
    while (    $file = readdir($dir)) // while loop
    {
    $parts = explode(".", $file); // pull apart the name and dissect by period
    if (is_array($parts) && count($parts) > 1) { // does the dissected array have more than one part
    $extension = end($parts); // set to we can see last file extension
    if ($extension == "ext" OR $extension == "EXT") // is extension ext or EXT ?
    echo "<a href=\"$file\" target=\"_blank\"> $file </a><br />"; // If so, echo it out else do nothing cos it's not what we want
    }
    }
    echo     "<hr><br />";
    closedir($dir); // Close the directory after we are done
    ?>
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    kdouglas at satarah dot com
    16 years ago
    Breadth-first-search (BFS) for a file or directory (vs. Depth-first-search)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadth-first_search

    <?php

    // Breadth-First Recursive Directory Search, for a File or Directory
    // with optional black-list paths and optional callback function.
    //
    // $root -- is the relative path to the start-of-search directory
    // $file -- is the qualified file name: 'name.ext' EX: 'data.xml'
    // (or) $file -- is the target directory name EX: 'xml_files'
    // $callback -- is an optional function name and will be passed all
    // matching paths EX: 'my_func', instead of exiting on first match
    // $omit -- is an optional array of exclude paths -- relative to root
    // To use $omit but not $callback, pass NULL as the $callback argument
    //
    // TESTING VALUES FOLLOW ...

    function my_func ( $path ) {
    print     "<strong>$path</strong><br>\n";
    }

    $root = '../public_html';
    $file = 'data.xml';
    $callback = 'my_func';
    $omit = array( 'include/img', 'include/css', 'scripts' );

    //print breadth_first_file_search ( $root, $file );
    //print breadth_first_file_search ( $root, $file, $callback );
    //print breadth_first_file_search ( $root, $file, NULL, $omit );
    print breadth_first_file_search ( $root, $file, $callback, $omit );

    function     breadth_first_file_search ( $root, $file, $callback = NULL, $omit = array() ) {
    $queue = array( rtrim( $root, '/' ).'/' ); // normalize all paths
    foreach ( $omit as &$path ) { // &$path Req. PHP ver 5.x and later
    $path = $root.trim( $path, '/' ).'/';
    }
    while (     $base = array_shift( $queue ) ) {
    $file_path = $base.$file;
    if (     file_exists( $file_path ) ) { // file found
    if ( is_callable( $callback ) ) {
    $callback( $file_path ); // callback => CONTINUE
    } else {
    return     $file_path; // return file-path => EXIT
    }
    }
    if ( (     $handle = opendir( $base ) ) ) {
    while ( (     $child = readdir( $handle ) ) !== FALSE ) {
    if (     is_dir( $base.$child ) && $child != '.' && $child != '..' ) {
    $combined_path = $base.$child.'/';
    if ( !    in_array( $combined_path, $omit ) ) {
    array_push( $queue, $combined_path);
    }
    }
    }
    closedir( $handle );
    }     // else unable to open directory => NEXT CHILD
    }
    return     FALSE; // end of tree, file not found
    }

    ?>
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    Anonymous
    18 years ago
    I Just wanted a directory list and a clickable link to download the files because my plesk server does not give me this function. I edited the script a little bit.

    Many thanks from a script-noob

    ------
    <?
    echo ("<h1>Directory Overzicht:</h1>");

    function getFiles($path) {
    //Function takes a path, and returns a numerically indexed array of associative arrays containing file information,
    //sorted by the file name (case insensitive). If two files are identical when compared without case, they will sort
    //relative to each other in the order presented by readdir()
    $files = array();
    $fileNames = array();
    $i = 0;

    if (is_dir($path)) {
    if ($dh = opendir($path)) {
    while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
    if ($file == "." || $file == "..") continue;
    $fullpath = $path . "/" . $file;
    $fkey = strtolower($file);
    while (array_key_exists($fkey,$fileNames)) $fkey .= " ";
    $a = stat($fullpath);
    $files[$fkey]['size'] = $a['size'];
    if ($a['size'] == 0) $files[$fkey]['sizetext'] = "-";
    else if ($a['size'] > 1024) $files[$fkey]['sizetext'] = (ceil($a['size']/1024*100)/100) . " K";
    else if ($a['size'] > 1024*1024) $files[$fkey]['sizetext'] = (ceil($a['size']/(1024*1024)*100)/100) . " Mb";
    else $files[$fkey]['sizetext'] = $a['size'] . " bytes";
    $files[$fkey]['name'] = $file;
    $files[$fkey]['type'] = filetype($fullpath);
    $fileNames[$i++] = $fkey;
    }
    closedir($dh);
    } else die ("Cannot open directory: $path");
    } else die ("Path is not a directory: $path");
    sort($fileNames,SORT_STRING);
    $sortedFiles = array();
    $i = 0;
    foreach($fileNames as $f) $sortedFiles[$i++] = $files[$f];

    return $sortedFiles;
    }

    $files = getFiles("./");
    foreach ($files as $file) print "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b><a href=\"$file[name]\">$file[name]</a></b><br>\n";
    ?>
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    Richard Bronosky
    15 years ago
    The easiest way to get a dir listing and sort it is to exec() out to ls (eg:'ls -t'). But, that is considered "unsafe". My hosting company finally caught me doing it so here is my fastest solution. (Lucky for me each file is created with a Unix Timestamp at the end of the name and no other numbers in it.)

    <?php
    #exec('ls -t ./images/motion_detection/', $files); # They outlawed exec, so now I have to do it by hand.
    if ($handle = opendir('./images/motion_detection/')) {
    $files=array();
    while (    false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
    $files[$file] = preg_replace('/[^0-9]/', '', $file); # Timestamps may not be unique, file names are.
    }
    closedir($handle);
    arsort($files);
    $files=array_keys($files);
    }
    ?>

    Before you go copying someone's bloat kitchen sink function/class, consider what you have and what you really need.
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    micklweiss at gmx dot net
    20 years ago
    I ran into a little snag in example 1. opendir() lists files by the last time the file was accessed. I was trying to print the files numerically in a directory.

    Solution: Use scandir() instead (php5) or store the files in an array and sort it.

    Hope this helps someone.

    - Mick

    (o> Web / software developer
    ( ) UNIX Systems Admin
    --- ~ www.mickweiss.com ~
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    Anonymous
    15 years ago
    If you want to iterate through a directory, have a look at the SPL DirectoryIterator:
    http://php.net/manual/class.directoryiterator.php
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    olivernassar.com
    15 years ago
    Hopefully this helps someone else. Returns a list of all the files in the directory and any subdirectories.
    Excludes files/folders that are in the $exempt array. Can modifiy it so files aren't passed by reference fairly easily.

    <?php

    function getFiles($directory,$exempt = array('.','..','.ds_store','.svn'),&$files = array()) {
    $handle = opendir($directory);
    while(    false !== ($resource = readdir($handle))) {
    if(!    in_array(strtolower($resource),$exempt)) {
    if(    is_dir($directory.$resource.'/'))
    array_merge($files,
    self::getFiles($directory.$resource.'/',$exempt,$files));
    else
    $files[] = $directory.$resource;
    }
    }
    closedir($handle);
    return     $files;
    }

    ?>
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    lolwut
    17 years ago
    I sometimes find this useful. Hope you will too.

    <?php
    //list_by_ext: returns an array containing an alphabetic list of files in the specified directory ($path) with a file extension that matches $extension

    function list_by_ext($extension, $path){
    $list = array(); //initialise a variable
    $dir_handle = @opendir($path) or die("Unable to open $path"); //attempt to open path
    while($file = readdir($dir_handle)){ //loop through all the files in the path
    if($file == "." || $file == ".."){continue;} //ignore these
    $filename = explode(".",$file); //seperate filename from extenstion
    $cnt = count($filename); $cnt--; $ext = $filename[$cnt]; //as above
    if(strtolower($ext) == strtolower($extension)){ //if the extension of the file matches the extension we are looking for...
    array_push($list, $file); //...then stick it onto the end of the list array
    }
    }
    if(    $list[0]){ //...if matches were found...
    return $list; //...return the array
    } else {//otherwise...
    return false;
    }
    }

    //example usage
    if($win32_exectuables = list_by_ext("exe", "C:\WINDOWS")){
    var_dump($win32_exectuables);
    } else {
    echo     "No windows executables found :(\n";
    }

    ?>
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    php at uchange dot co dot uk
    15 years ago
    Having spent an hour or so trying to get a complete list of files from a network share on Windows, I've given up (Apache 2.2 Win32, WinXP, PHP5 -> Windows 2000 R2).

    Trying to use a mapped drive letter gives me an error and trying to use the UNC path works but is dog slow (it takes a couple of minutes to open and readdir() a directory with a couple of hundred files).

    Using this code is fast and instant (you'll have to chop up the output yourself but so be it!)

    $out = `dir $dir /B /S`;

    If you don't need recursive subdirectories remove the /S from the command - for more details run 'dir /?' on Windows.

    Hope this helps somebody in a similar fix!
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    mstabile75 at gmail dot com
    18 years ago
    <?php
    /* The below function will list all folders and files within a directory
    It is a recursive function that uses a global array. The global array was the easiest
    way for me to work with an array in a recursive function
    *This function has no limit on the number of levels down you can search.
    *The array structure was one that worked for me.
    ARGUMENTS:
    $startdir => specify the directory to start from; format: must end in a "/"
    $searchSubdirs => True/false; True if you want to search subdirectories
    $directoriesonly => True/false; True if you want to only return directories
    $maxlevel => "all" or a number; specifes the number of directories down that you want to search
    $level => integer; directory level that the function is currently searching
    */
    function filelist ($startdir="./", $searchSubdirs=1, $directoriesonly=0, $maxlevel="all", $level=1) {
    //list the directory/file names that you want to ignore
    $ignoredDirectory[] = ".";
    $ignoredDirectory[] = "..";
    $ignoredDirectory[] = "_vti_cnf";
    global     $directorylist; //initialize global array
    if (is_dir($startdir)) {
    if (    $dh = opendir($startdir)) {
    while ((    $file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
    if (!(    array_search($file,$ignoredDirectory) > -1)) {
    if (    filetype($startdir . $file) == "dir") {
    //build your directory array however you choose;
    //add other file details that you want.
    $directorylist[$startdir . $file]['level'] = $level;
    $directorylist[$startdir . $file]['dir'] = 1;
    $directorylist[$startdir . $file]['name'] = $file;
    $directorylist[$startdir . $file]['path'] = $startdir;
    if (    $searchSubdirs) {
    if (((    $maxlevel) == "all") or ($maxlevel > $level)) {
    filelist($startdir . $file . "/", $searchSubdirs, $directoriesonly, $maxlevel, $level + 1);
    }
    }
    } else {
    if (!    $directoriesonly) {
    //if you want to include files; build your file array
    //however you choose; add other file details that you want.
    $directorylist[$startdir . $file]['level'] = $level;
    $directorylist[$startdir . $file]['dir'] = 0;
    $directorylist[$startdir . $file]['name'] = $file;
    $directorylist[$startdir . $file]['path'] = $startdir;
    }}}}
    closedir($dh);
    }}
    return(    $directorylist);
    }
    $files = filelist("./",1,1); // call the function
    foreach ($files as $list) {//print array
    echo "Directory: " . $list['dir'] . " => Level: " . $list['level'] . " => Name: " . $list['name'] . " => Path: " . $list['path'] ."<br>";
    }    ?>
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    Michael mt1955 (a) gmail.com
    17 years ago
    # simple directory walk with callback function

    <?php
    function callbackDir($dir)
    {
    # do whatever you want here
    echo "$dir\n";
    }

    function     walkDir($dir,$fx)
    {
    $arStack = array();
    $fx($dir);
    if( (    $dh=opendir($dir)) )
    { while( (    $file=readdir($dh))!==false )
    { if(     $file=='.' || $file=='..' ) continue;
    if(     is_dir("$dir/$file") )
    { if( !    in_array("$dir/$file",$arStack) ) $arStack[]="$dir/$file";
    }
    }
    closedir($dh);
    }
    if(     count($arStack) )
    { foreach(     $arStack as $subdir )
    {     walkDir($subdir,$fx);
    }
    }
    }

    walkDir($root,callBackDir);
    ?>
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