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opendir — Abre un gestor de directorio
Descripción
resource opendir
( string $path
[, resource $context
] )
Abre un gestor de directorio para ser usado con llamadas posteriores como
closedir(), readdir(), y
rewinddir().
Parámetros
ruta
La ruta del directorio a ser abierta.
contexto
Para una descripción del parámetro contexto, refiérase a la sección de secuencias del
manual.
Valores devueltos
Devuelve un gestor de directorio tipo resource en caso de éxito, o

FALSE si ocurre un error.
Si ruta no es un directorio válido o el directorio no puede ser abierto debido a restricciones de

permisos o errores del sistema de archivos, opendir() devuelve FALSE y
genera un error de PHP de
http://php.net/manual/es/function.opendir.php[09/01/2018 23:08:40]
nivel E_WARNING. Es posible suprimir la salida del error de opendir() anteponiendo

'@' al nombre
de la función.
Hisorial de cambios
Versión Descripción
5.0.0 ruta soporta dentro de la URL la envoltura ftp://.
4.3.0 ruta puede leer también cualquier URL que soporte el listado de directorios, sin
embargo solo la envoltura de URL fle://
tiene este soporte en PHP 4 .
Ejemplos
Ejemplo #1 opendir() ejemplo
<?php
$dir = "/etc/php5/";

// Abre un directorio conocido, y procede a leer el contenido
if (is_dir($dir)) {
if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
echo "nombre archivo: $file : tipo archivo: " . filetype($dir . $file)
. "\n";
}
closedir($dh);
}
}
?>
El resultado del ejemplo sería algo similar a:
nombre archivo: . : tipo archivo: dir

nombre archivo: .. : tipo archivo: dir
nombre archivo: apache : tipo archivo: dir
nombre archivo: cgi : tipo archivo: dir
nombre archivo: cli : tipo archivo: dir
Ver también
is_dir() - Indica si el nombre de archivo es un directorio

readdir() - Lee una entrada desde un gestor de directorio
dir() - Devuelve una instancia de la clase Directory
add a note
User Contributed Notes 55 notes
10 hz_php at hotmail dot com { hussam alzahabi } ¶ 1 year 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/>";

}

}

}
?>
6 sergio dot barrios at upr dot edu dot cu ¶ 1 year 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);

}
}

}
?>
7 archipel dot gb at online dot fr ¶ 9 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;
}
?>
4 neale-php at woozle dot org ¶ 12 years ago
oryan's example is still sub-optimal, even if people using it never ever

substitute a variable for directory.
Just use PHP's glob() function, which will be faster and more efficient anyway
since it doesn't have to launch a shell and run the ls program (that's what the
shell_exec does).
$result = glob("directory/*");
7 DaveRandom ¶ 8 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")
...
?>
1 Pos from everything2 dot com ¶ 9 years ago
when you run Apache as a service on your Windows computer, it chooses to run as
the LocalSystem account by default (usually SYSTEM). The LocalSystem account has
no network privileges whatsoever which, while no doubt a good thing, makes it
impossible to access networked resources (such as a shared drive) in your Apache
service.
First, you have to change the user the Apache service runs as.
Go to your Services panel (Start -> Run -> "services.msc").
Find the Service labeled Apache, right-click, and hit Properties.
Choose the "Log On" tab.
Presumably you'll see that Apache is set up to run as the Local System Account.
You'll want to change this to the second option, "This account", and then fill in
the details of the User account you would like Apache to run under.
Some sites tell you to create a special Apache-based user account just for this
occasion. It's not a bad idea, but then you have to make sure it has all of the
proper permissions that an Apache user would need, such as read/write to to htdocs
and the .conf and .log files, and permissions to log on as a service, etc etc - as
well as the permissions to access the network resource you're trying to get to in
the first place.
In light of that process, I chose to just run it under my own account instead.
Once you get it working, you can go back and create that special account.
Hit "Apply" - it'll pop up a box saying you need to restart Apache to take effect,
but hold off on that for a moment.
This is the tricky part: you have to give the user (the one you're running Apache
as) permissions to act as part of the OS.
Go to the Local Security Policy panel (Start -> Run -> "secpol.msc").
Under the navigation section in the left sidebar, choose Local Policies -> User
Rights Assignments.
In the right-hand frame, double-click the item "Act as part of the operating
system" to open up its properties.
Select "Add User or Group, Enter the appropriate user in the box provided, and hit
"OK."
At this point, you are technically complete - Apache can now do the same things to
the network resource that your user can - read, write, execute, whatever. However,
in my case, I was trying to create an actual readable resource, so I edited my
Apache config file to create an alias to my share.
Open up your Apache configuration file. For most people it's httpd.conf in the
conf subdirectory of your Apache install directory.
Add the following text to your config file (obviously substituting your UNC for
"//servername/sharename" and renaming ALIAS_DIRECTORY to whatever you'd like):
Alias /ALIAS_DIRECTORY "//servername/sharename"
<Directory "//servername/sharename">
Options Indexes
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory
The other thing that is tricky and caught me up is that unlike Windows UNCs, the
Apache config file requires forward slashes, not backslashes. So if you're copying
the UNC directly from Windows, you'll have to turn all those slashes around.
Now you can restart your Apache service. Take a swing over to
http://your.site.name/ALIAS_DIRECTORY and you should be able to view the network
resource just fine.
2 php at uchange dot co dot uk ¶ 9 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!
1 Madog Llwyd ¶ 8 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
?>
1 kdouglas at satarah dot com ¶ 9 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
}
?>
1 matt ¶ 8 years ago
I tried it as in the post before described, but it still won't work. Maybe cause
i'm using an Apache-Server on Windows 2003 Server.
Now, i found a way that it works and i got access to the share. First of all, you
need to set the run user for Apache to a user that has access to the share (see in
post before).
Then map your drive in the php script before you read the dir:
system('net use K: \\servername\sharename /user:username password
/persistent:no');
$share = opendir('\\\\servername\\sharename');
....
1 olivernassar.com ¶ 8 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;
}
?>
2 MetaNull ¶ 10 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 );
}
}
?>
1 lolwut ¶ 10 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($win32_exectuables);
} else {
echo "No windows executables found :(\n";
}
?>
0 hxss at ya dot ru ¶ 4 months ago
The TRUE recursive map function for working with dirs & files.
You can create, read(find), update(or move) or delete files/dirs/tree by your
callable function.
You can use flags for select what content you need.
<?php
var_dump(dirmap($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);
}
?>
0 Anonymous ¶ 8 years ago
If you want to iterate through a directory, have a look at the SPL

DirectoryIterator:
http://php.net/manual/class.directoryiterator.php
0 info at myweb dot lu ¶ 9 years ago
Read a Windows SMB Directory ;)
<?
function SMBMap($username, $password, $server, $dir) {

$command = "mount -t smbfs -o username=$username,password=$password
//$server/$dir /mnt/tmp";
echo system($command);
}
function SMBRelease() {
$command = "umount /mnt/tmp";
echo system($command);
}
function GetFiles($dir) {
$files = array();
if (is_dir($dir)) {
$files[] = $file."{".filetype("$dir/$file")."}";
}
closedir($dh);
}
}
return $files;
}
SMBMap("Daniel", "", "10.0.0.2", "Kram");

$any = GetFiles("/mnt/tmp");
SMBRelease();
print_r($any);
?>
0 Peter Hkansson ¶ 10 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);
$i=1;
if($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);
?>
0 mana at averna dot com ¶ 10 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
0 MetaNull ¶ 10 years ago
How to find files in a directory, using regular expressions (case-sensitive or

not)
<?php
clearstatcache();
$sourcepath = "C:/WINDOWS/TEMP";
// Replace \ by / and remove the final / if any

$root = ereg_replace( "/$", "", ereg_replace( "[\\]", "/", $sourcepath ));
// Search for text files

$results = m_find_in_dir( $root, ".*\.txt" );
if( false === $results ) {
echo "'{$sourcepath}' is not a valid directory\n";
} else {
print_r( $results );
}
/**
* Search for a file maching a regular expression

*
* @param string $root Root path
* @param string $pattern POSIX regular expression pattern
* @param boolean $recursive Set to true to walk the subdirectories recursively
* @param boolean $case_sensitive Set to true for case sensitive search
* @return array An array of string representing the path of the matching files, or
false in case of error
*/
function m_find_in_dir( $root, $pattern, $recursive = true, $case_sensitive =
false ) {
$result = array();
if( $case_sensitive ) {
if( false === m_find_in_dir__( $root, $pattern, $recursive, $result )) {
return false;
}
} else {
if( false === m_find_in_dir_i__( $root, $pattern, $recursive, $result )) {
return false;
}
}

return $result;
}
/**
* @access private
*/
function m_find_in_dir__( $root, $pattern, $recursive, &$result ) {
return false;
}
if( "." == $file || ".." == $file ){
continue;
}
if( false !== @ereg( $pattern, "{$root}/{$file}" )) {
$result[] = "{$root}/{$file}";
}
m_find_in_dir__( "{$root}/{$file}", $pattern, $recursive, $result );
}
}
closedir( $dh );
return true;
}
/**
* @access private
*/
function m_find_in_dir_i__( $root, $pattern, $recursive, &$result ) {
return false;
}
if( "." == $file || ".." == $file ){
continue;
}
if( false !== @eregi( $pattern, "{$root}/{$file}" )) {
$result[] = "{$root}/{$file}";
}
m_find_in_dir__( "{$root}/{$file}", $pattern, $recursive, $result );
}
}
closedir( $dh );
return true;
}
?>
0 Michael mt1955 (a) gmail.com ¶ 10 years ago
# simple directory walk with callback function
<?php
function callbackDir($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);
?>
0 NerdyDork ¶ 10 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('./')) {
$files = array();
if (substr($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 $title;
}
?>
0 frogsarr78 at yahoo dot com ¶ 10 years ago
Here's a function that will recrusively turn a directory into a hash of directory
hashes and file arrays, automatically ignoring "dot" files.
<?php
function hashify_directory($topdir, &$list, $ignoredDirectories=array()) {
if (is_dir($topdir)) {
if ($dh = opendir($topdir)) {
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/", $public_html["StudentFiles"]);
?>
on the directory structure:
./StudentFiles/tutorial_01/case1/file1.html
etc...
becomes:
<?php
print_r($public_html);
/*
outputs:
array(
"StudentFiles" => array (
"tutorial_01" => array (
"case1" => array( "file1.html", "file2.html")
),
"case1" => array( "file1.html"),
"case2" => array( "file2.html")
),
"case1" => array( "file2.html")
)
)
)
*/
?>
I'm using it to create a tree view of a directory.
0 tim2005 ¶ 11 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
0 tozeiler ¶ 11 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 $path/files:
<?php
echo "<h1>Directory Overzicht:</h1>";
echo "<a href='$path/$file'>$file</a><br />";
}
closedir($dh);
?>
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 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 ($dh = opendir($path)) {
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 $file) print " <b><a
href=\"$file[name]\">$file[name]</a></b><br>\n";
?>
0 msabile75 at gmail dot com ¶ 12 years ago
up
down
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
<?
$list2 = filelist($startdir . $file . "/", $searchSubdirs, $directoriesonly,
$maxlevel, $level + 1);
if(is_array($list2)) {
$directorylist = array_merge($directorylist, $list2);
}
}
?>
0 msabile75 at gmail dot com ¶ 12 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)) {
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) {
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>";
}?>
0 chrys at mytechjournal dot com ¶ 12 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($dir)) {
while (($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);
}
}
}
?>
0 oryan at zarese dot com ¶ 12 years ago
There might be a bit of truth to that. If, by chance, the webmaster made a form
saying "type a random directory name here" and used that in the function, there'd
be a problem. So let's eliminate the 'function' part
$files=shell_exec("ls directory");
$result=explode("\n",$files);
'$result' will now be an array of the directory files. You can use variables in
the shell_exec command, but don't use anything that could be user-sent.
0 aligma at gmail dot com ¶ 12 years ago
The example given by oryan at zareste dot com may also be a "simpler faster way"
of creating security holes in your code. The function listed above prevents
risking execution of abitrary shell commands listed after a semicolon (;) in your
directory name.
Example: $directory = '.;rm -rf /';
Result: List this directory, erase contents of filesystem.
0 oryan at zarese dot com ¶ 12 years ago
There's a simpler faster way to get a whole directory if you're using PHP 4. This
function uses shell_exec - http://us3.php.net/shell_exec - and assumes you're
using Unix/Linux and have shell access -
function dir($directory){
$files=shell_exec("ls ".$directory);
return explode("\n",$files);
}
This returns an array with all the files.

This way, you can use modifiers like -t, which shows files in order of
modification time ($files=shell_exec("ls -t ".$directory);). Enough tweaking and
you can use it on Windows, though I can't say how since I don't have a Windows
server to try it on
0 asharm4 at ilsu dot edu ¶ 12 years ago
//this is a function I wrote to sort out the contents of the directory date wise
for display.
$content_array = array();
//set current working directory

$dirname = "C:\temp";
//Load Directory Into Array

$handle=opendir($dirname);
$i=0;
while ($file = readdir($handle))
if ($file != "." && $file != "..")
{
$content_array[$i][0] = $file;
$content_array[$i][1] = date ("Y m d", filemtime($dirname."/".$file));
$i++;
}
//close the directory handle
closedir($handle);
//these lines sort the contents of the directory by the date

foreach($content_array as $res)
$sortAux[] = $res[1];
array_multisort($sortAux, SORT_ASC, $content_array);
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 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 ($dh = opendir($path)) {
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";
?>
0 Lasse Dalegaard ¶ 12 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
?>
0 iamnotanerd ¶ 12 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 ;
?>
0 hendrik dot wermer at gmx dot de ¶ 12 years ago
Here's another version of directory listing, since I had some problems using the
examples below. It will display the content of the current directory, sorted by
directories and files.
You can also search subdirectories by setting $maxDepth > 0. There's a link to
other directories, so you can easily switch to the parent directory or to other
directories in the current directory.
Hope it helps!
<?php
// show directory content
function showDir($dir, $i, $maxDepth){
$i++;
if($checkDir = opendir($dir)){
$cDir = 0;
$cFile = 0;
// check all files in $dir, add to array listDir or listFile
while($file = readdir($checkDir)){
if($file != "." && $file != ".."){
if(is_dir($dir . "/" . $file)){
$listDir[$cDir] = $file;
$cDir++;
}
else{
$listFile[$cFile] = $file;
$cFile++;
}
}
}

// show directories
if(count($listDir) > 0){
sort($listDir);
for($j = 0; $j < count($listDir); $j++){
echo "
<tr>";
$spacer = "";
for($l = 0; $l < $i; $l++) $spacer .= "&emsp;";
// create link
$link = "<a href=\"" . $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] . "?dir=" . $dir .
"/" . $listDir[$j] . "\">$listDir[$j]</a>";
echo "<td>" . $spacer . $link . "</td>
</tr>";
// list all subdirectories up to maxDepth
if($i < $maxDepth) showDir($dir . "/" . $listDir[$j], $i,
$maxDepth);
}
}

// show files
if(count($listFile) > 0){
sort($listFile);
for($k = 0; $k < count($listFile); $k++){
$spacer = "";
for($l = 0; $l < $i; $l++) $spacer .= "&emsp;";
echo "
<tr>
<td>" . $spacer . $listFile[$k] . "</td>
</tr>";
}
}
closedir($checkDir);
}
}
if($_GET["dir"] == "" || !is_dir($_GET["dir"])) $dir = getcwd();

else $dir = $_GET["dir"];
// replace backslashes, not necessary, but better to look at
$dir = str_replace("\\", "/", $dir);
// show parent path

$pDir = pathinfo($dir);
$parentDir = $pDir["dirname"];
echo "<a href=\"" . $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] . "\"><h3>Home</h3></a>";

echo "Current directory: " . $dir;
echo "<a href=\"" . $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] . "?dir=$parentDir\"><h4>Parent
directory: $parentDir</h4></a>";
// Display directory content

echo"<table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2>
<tr><th align=left>File / Dir</th>";
// specifies the maxDepth of included subdirectories

// set maxDepth to 0 if u want to display the current directory
$maxDepth = 0;
showDir($dir, -1, $maxDepth);
?>
0 sandy at montana-riverboats dot com ¶ 13 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 ($handle);
}
}
?>
0 cnichols at nmu dot edu ¶ 13 years ago
Here's another recursive function that prints out everything from the starting
path to the end. It doesn't have any search function, but just another example. I
wrote it for getting a quick hierarchial view of websites (even through
Dreamweaver will show it to me, it'd be a chore to go through each folder and
expand it).
<?php
// map_dirs(path,level)
// path, level to start (start at 0)
map_dirs("/var/ww/html/",0);
function map_dirs($path,$level) {
if(is_dir($path)) {
if($contents = opendir($path)) {
while(($node = readdir($contents)) !== false) {
if($node!="." && $node!="..") {
for($i=0;$i<$level;$i++) echo " ";
if(is_dir($path."/".$node)) echo "+"; else
echo " ";
echo $node."\n";
map_dirs("$path/$node",$level+1);
}
}
}
}
}
?>
0 info at 4design dot nu ¶ 14 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...
0 Matt Grimm ¶ 14 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").
-1 Richard Bronosky ¶ 8 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.
-1 phpguy at mailsop dot yogelements dot omitme dot com ¶ 11 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);
}
-1 MagicalTux at FF.s ¶ 13 years ago
Note that the opendir() function will use ISO8859-1 characterset under windows...
If you have korean, japanese, etc.. filenames, you won't be able to open them. I
still didn't find any solution to workaround that.
-1 Cabal at CnCWorld dot org ¶ 13 years ago
I had problems getting it to work because I'm not the best at PHP, but there IS a
way to use opendir to list things in alphabetical order. I'm using it for my
university project. All you have to do is read the filenames into an array, sort
the array and then do what you want with the filenames.... like this....
So that you know what all my variables mean in this - $stats is the folder that it
looks in for the files - for example
?stats=images
would look in the images folder
Obviously you will want to modify it so it fits your needs, but I thought you guys
would want this - especially if your server doesnt have the latest version of php.
===========================
<?php
$i = 0;
$arraycount = 0;
$home="/home/cabal/public_html/b146/admin/$stats";
if ($stats)
{
$dircheck="/home/cabal/public_html/b146/admin/$stats";
if (is_dir($dircheck))
{
if ($handle = opendir($home))
{
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle)))
{
if ($file != "." && $file != "..")
{
$path = "$home/$file";
$extension = array_pop(explode('.', basename($path)));
$filearray[$i] = $file;
$i++;
}
}
}
closedir($handle);

}
else
{
echo "INCORRECT SELECTION";

}
else
{
echo "NOTHING SELECTED";
}
echo " ";
echo("<table width='100%' border='1'><tr><td><b><font color='#ff0000'>");

echo("$stats : Log File");
echo("</b></font></td><td><font color='#FF0000'><b>Page Views</b></font></td>
</tr>");
sort($filearray);
reset($filearray);
while (list($key, $val) = each($filearray))
{
$includearray = "$home/$filearray[$key]";
echo("<tr><td>");
echo("$val");
echo("</td><td>");
include($includearray);
echo("</td></tr>");

}
echo("</table>");
?>
-1 micklweiss at gmx dot net ¶ 14 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 ~
-2 Chrisian ¶ 11 years ago
Pointing on the previous post, I'd like to say the following.
You can use opendir on all valid (existant and reachable) folders.
This counts not only for windows but also for linux.
Under linux, you can also read root folders etc.
To avoid access to non-public data, you should check the given parameter for
opendir before executing opendir.
Let's say you have this:
/home/users/mrsmith/
/home/users/mrsmith/info.txt
/home/users/mrsmith/test/photo.jpg
/home/users/mradmin/private.txt
Now you don't want mrsmith to access mradmin's folders/files.

In that case you could/should define the path where the data MUST be inside.
Attention:
Don't check the data with substr though, it's not a secure solution.
Exploit example: /home/users/mrsmith/../mradmin/
Exploit example2: /home/users/mrsmith/../../../../../../../../../../../../../dev/
I'd do a case sensitive regex match.

So after the first folder there may not be a subfolder named ".." because that
would jump one folder back.
I hope this isn't too offtopic or so but I think it's important to think of that
when creating file systems.
-2 dieck at gmx dot de ¶ 13 years ago
If you have problems like "failed to open dir: Invalid argument"

when using IIS and trying to access windows/smb network shares, try
//servername/share/directory
instead of
\\servername\share
-1 sebasian dot kroskiewicz at gmail dot com ¶ 7 years ago
If you search for a comfortable way to include javascript code from other
javascript code, here is a useful tool based on opendir():
<?php
class JSIncluder {
private static $included = array();
private static function ext($filename) {

return pathinfo($filename, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
}
public static function includeFile($file) {

if (isset(JSIncluder::$included[$file]))
return;
JSIncluder::$included[$file] = true;
$contents = file_get_contents($file);
preg_match_all('/\/\*include:([^*]+)\*\//', $contents, $deps);
foreach ($deps[1] as $dep) {

if (is_file($dep)) {
JSIncluder::includeFile($dep);
} else
JSIncluder::includeAll($dep);
}
echo '<script type="text/javascript">' . $file . '</script>' . PHP_EOL;

}
private static function includeAll($dir) {

if (($handle = opendir($dir))) {
while ($file = readdir($handle)) {
clearstatcache();
if (is_file($dir . '/' . $file)) {
if (JSIncluder::ext($file) == 'js') {
JSIncluder::includeFile($dir . '/' . $file);
}
} elseif ($file != '..' && $file != '.')
JSIncluder::includeAll($dir . '/' . $file);

}
closedir($handle);
}
}
?>
Now, you can just write <?php JSIncluder::includeFile('path/to/script/main.js') ?>

in your <head> section and then you can include files directly from your
javascript files by typing /*include:path/to/other/script/foo.js*/ anywhere! For
example:
/*include:scripts/lib*/ //it will include the whole lib dir and its subdirectories
/*include:scripts/helloworld.js*/ //it will include only one file
$(function() {
$(body).html('Hello world!');
});
and in your html code:

<head>
<?php JSIncluder::includeFile('scripts/main.js') ?>
</head>
The JSIncluder should be safe, because all the work is done server-side and
clients just can't affect anything. They could write /*include:/foo/bar*/ but
nothing will happen, because the code does nothing but automatically generates
<script> tags in specific order in your <head> section.
Feel free to modify my code. I believe that it will be useful!
-1 no-michael-spam at placecreativecompany dot com ¶ 4 years ago
You can't rely on is_dir() and a permissions check to know whether opendir() will
succeed.
I'm working on a Windows system and accessing files on an OSX share. There are
file/folder names with unsupported characters in them, (such as ">"), so opendir()
fails with "the volume label syntax is incorrect." However, is_dir() will report -
correctly - that it these are valid directories!
Though for what it's worth, Windows can't get in there either. The ">" character
existing in the folder name is a problem for both.
Bottom line: you may need to test the result of opendir() before you go on to
process it, even if you've checked permissions and is_dir() beforehand.
-1 diego at moon-sand dot net ¶ 8 years ago
Correction on the previous function. Was missing full path on recursive line.
<? function file_array($path, $exclude = ".|..", $recursive = true) {

$path = rtrim($path, "/") . "/";
$folder_handle = opendir($path);
$exclude_array = explode("|", $exclude);
$result = array();
while(false !== ($filename = readdir($folder_handle))) {
if(!in_array(strtolower($filename), $exclude_array)) {
if(is_dir($path . $filename . "/")) {
// Need to include full "path" or it's an infinite
loop
if($recursive) $result[] = file_array($path . $filename . "/",
$exclude, true);
} else {
$result[] = $filename;
}
}
}
return $result;
}
?>
-1 arjan at wepwn dot nl ¶ 10 years ago
A simple function to count all the files and/or dirs inside a dir.
With optional extention when counting files.
Index of /
Some text file.txt
files/
num_files.phps
test.php
<?php
function num_files($dir, $type, $ext="")
{
// type 1: files only
// type 2: direcories only
// type 3: files and directories added
// type 4: files and directories separated with a space
if (!isset($dir) OR empty($dir))
{
echo '<b>Syntax error:</b> $dir value empty.';
exit;
}
$num_files = 0;
$num_dirs = 0;
switch($type)
{
case 1: // count only files, not dirs
if ($dir = @opendir($dir))
{
while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false)
{
if(is_file($file) AND $file != "." AND $file != "..")
{
if (isset($ext) AND !empty($ext))
{
$extension = end(explode(".", $file));
if ($ext == $extension)
{
$num_files++;
}
}
else
{
$num_files++;
}
}
}
closedir($dir);
$total = $num_files;
}
break;
case 2: // count only dirs, not files

{
{
if(is_dir($file) AND $file != "." AND $file != "..")
{
$num_dirs++;
}
}
closedir($dir);
$total = $num_dirs;
}
break;
case 3: // count files PLUS dirs in once variable

{
{
if(is_dir($file) OR is_dir($file))
{
if ($file != "." AND $file != "..")
{
$num_files++;
}
}
}
closedir($dir);
$total = $num_files;
}
break;
case 4: // count files AND dirs separately

{
{
if(is_file($file) AND $file != "." AND $file != "..")
{
$num_files++;
}
if(is_dir($file) AND $file != "." AND $file != "..")

{
$num_dirs++;
}
}
closedir($dir);
$total = $num_files." ".$num_dirs;
}
break;
default:
echo '<b>Syntax error:</b> $type value empty.';
break;
}
return $total;
}
echo num_files($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], 1, "php"). " file(s) met php

extention<br /> ";
echo num_files($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], 1). " file(s)<br />";
echo num_files($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], 2). " dir(s)<br />";
echo num_files($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], 3). " file(s) + dir(s)<br />";
$nummers = explode(" ", num_files($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], 4));
echo reset($nummers) ." file(s) en ". end($nummers) ." dir(s)";
?>
will output:
1 file(s) with php extention
3 file(s)
1 dir(s)
1 file(s) + dir(s)
3 file(s) en 1 dir(s)
-2 mitka at actdev.com ¶ 15 years ago
Re: Accessing network directories on W32
In reply to the previous comments, to enable opendir() to open directories like

"\\SOMEHOST\shareddir", with PHP+IIS:
Follow the instructions here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?

scid=kb;en-us;Q189408
Check that the file share allows reads to IUSR_[HOSTNAME] user.
-2 cgray at metamedia dot us ¶ 7 years ago
To extend the examples already given into something more flexible and complete.
-c!
<?php
/**
* directory_list
* return an array containing optionally all files, only directiories or only files
at a file system path
* @author cgray The Metamedia Corporation www.metamedia.us
*
* @param $base_path string either absolute or relative path
* @param $filter_dir boolean Filter directories from result (ignored
except in last directory if $recursive is true)
* @param $filter_files boolean Filter files from result
* @param $exclude string Pipe delimited string of files to always
ignore
* @param $recursive boolean Descend directory to the bottom?
* @return $result_list array Nested array or false
* @access public
* @license GPL v3
*/
function directory_list($directory_base_path, $filter_dir = false, $filter_files =
false, $exclude = ".|..|.DS_Store|.svn", $recursive = true){
$directory_base_path = rtrim($directory_base_path, "/") . "/";
if (!is_dir($directory_base_path)){
error_log(__FUNCTION__ . "File at: $directory_base_path is not a
directory.");
return false;
}
$result_list = array();
$exclude_array = explode("|", $exclude);
if (!$folder_handle = opendir($directory_base_path)) {
error_log(__FUNCTION__ . "Could not open directory at:
$directory_base_path");
return false;
}else{
while(false !== ($filename = readdir($folder_handle))) {
if(!in_array($filename, $exclude_array)) {
if(is_dir($directory_base_path . $filename . "/")) {
if($recursive && strcmp($filename, ".")!=0 &&
strcmp($filename, "..")!=0 ){ // prevent infinite recursion
error_log($directory_base_path . $filename . "/");
$result_list[$filename] =
directory_list("$directory_base_path$filename/", $filter_dir, $filter_files,
$exclude, $recursive);
}elseif(!$filter_dir){
$result_list[] = $filename;
}
}elseif(!$filter_files){
$result_list[] = $filename;
}
}
}
closedir($folder_handle);
return $result_list;
}
}
?>
-2 Dblurred ¶ 10 years ago
In reponse to Tozeiler. Nice short directory dump. However, that displays the
"." and "..". This removes those. It also makes an ordered list in case I needed
to be on the phone while looking at the page. Easy to call out.
<?php
$path = "your path";

$i=1;
if($file != "." && $file != "..") {
echo "$i. <a href='$path/$file'>$file</a><br />";
$i++;
}
}
closedir($dh);
?>
-3 gothic dot javier at gmail dot com ¶ 2 years ago
About
// 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."
// Open the directory

$dir = opendir($letter.":/an/example/path")
With apache in windows this is not working is needed to double all backslashes to
work.
$location = "\\\\servername\\sharename";
$user = "USERNAME";
$pass = "PASSWORD";
$letter = "Z";
// Map the drive

system("net use ".$letter.": ".$location." ".$pass." /user:".$user."
$dir = $letter.":/";
$dh = opendir($dir);
This worked for me.
add a note
Funciones de directorio
chdir
chroot
closedir
dir
getcwd
» opendir
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PHP 5.6.33 Released

Devuelve un gestor de directorio tipo resource en caso de éxito, o

Si ruta no es un directorio válido o el directorio no puede ser abierto debido a restricciones de

nivel E_WARNING. Es posible suprimir la salida del error de opendir() anteponiendo

5.0.0 ruta soporta dentro de la URL la envoltura ftp://.

Ejemplo #1 opendir() ejemplo

El resultado del ejemplo sería algo similar a:

nombre archivo: . : tipo archivo: dir

is_dir() - Indica si el nombre de archivo es un directorio

10 hz_php at hotmail dot com { hussam alzahabi } ¶ 1 year ago

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

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

6 sergio dot barrios at upr dot edu dot cu ¶ 1 year ago

iterated function that searches a folder or file in a directory.

//if we call the function spider as spider($root);

//if we call the function spider as spider('../Classes', 'Shared');

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

7 archipel dot gb at online dot fr ¶ 9 years ago

The second one is iterative (uses less memory) :

Here is also a profiling function (works in php5 only) :

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

printf( '<pre>Max memory for '.$func.'() : %0.2f kbytes

4 neale-php at woozle dot org ¶ 12 years ago

oryan's example is still sub-optimal, even if people using it never ever

7 DaveRandom ¶ 8 years ago

A couple of notes on Matt's posts on Windows Network Drives:

Here (http://networkm.co.uk/static/drive.html) is a function I wrote to

// Define the parameters for the shell command

// Map the drive

// Open the directory

1 Pos from everything2 dot com ¶ 9 years ago

Alias /ALIAS_DIRECTORY "//servername/sharename"

resource just fine.

2 php at uchange dot co dot uk ¶ 9 years ago

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

Hope this helps somebody in a similar fix!

1 Madog Llwyd ¶ 8 years ago

$current_dir = "$DOCUMENT_ROOT"."dirname/"; //Put in second part, the

$dir = opendir($current_dir); // Open the sucker

while ($file = readdir($dir)) // while loop

$parts = explode(".", $file); // pull apart the name and

if (is_array($parts) && count($parts) > 1) { // does the dissected array

$extension = end($parts); // set to we can see last file extension

if ($extension == "ext" OR $extension == "EXT") // is extension ext or

echo "<a href=\"$file\" target=\"_blank\"> $file </a><br />"; //

echo "<hr><br />";

closedir($dir); // Close the directory after we are done

1 kdouglas at satarah dot com ¶ 9 years ago

Breadth-first-search (BFS) for a file or directory (vs. Depth-first-search)

// Breadth-First Recursive Directory Search, for a File or Directory

function my_func ( $path ) {

//print breadth_first_file_search ( $root, $file );

function breadth_first_file_search ( $root, $file, $callback = NULL, $omit =

1 matt ¶ 8 years ago

system('net use K: \\servername\sharename /user:username password

1 olivernassar.com ¶ 8 years ago

while(false !== ($resource = readdir($handle))) {

2 MetaNull ¶ 10 years ago

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

// Replace \ by / and remove the final / if any

// Walk a directory recursivelly, and apply a callback on each file

// if the path indicates a file, run touch() on it

1 lolwut ¶ 10 years ago