» google_pagerank()
  » preg_replace()
  » imagecreatefrompng()
  » site_pageranks()
  » imagepng()
  » imagedestroy()
  » imagestring()
  » imagecolorallocate()
  » htmlentities()
  » preg_match()
  » fopen()
  » header()
  » getimagesize()
  » preg_match_all()
  » session_start()
  » htmlspecialchars()
  » ob_start()
  » ob_flush()
  » strstr()
  » flush()
  » strpos()
  » setcookie()
  » str_replace()
  » array2vars()
  » nl2br()
  » preg_split()
  » ereg()
  » ereg_replace()
  » urlencode()
  » readgzfile()

Become a sponsor for $15/month. Link is sitewide - PR5 homepage, 20+ PR4 pages, 90+ PR3 pages. Email dave[AT]icemelon[D0T]c0m.

(PHP 5)

scandir -- List files and directories inside the specified path

Description

array scandir ( string directory [, int sorting_order [, resource context]] )

Returns an array of files and directories from the directory .

Parameters

directory

The directory that will be scanned.

sorting_order

By default, the sorted order is alphabetical in ascending order. If the optional sorting_order is used (set to 1), then the sort order is alphabetical in descending order.

context

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

Return Values

Returns an array of filenames on success, or FALSE on failure. If directory is not a directory, then boolean FALSE is returned, and an error of level E_WARNING is generated.

Examples

Example 1. A simple scandir() example

<?php
$dir    = '/tmp';
$files1 = scandir($dir);
$files2 = scandir($dir, 1);

print_r($files1);
print_r($files2);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Array
(
    [0] => .
    [1] => ..
    [2] => bar.php
    [3] => foo.txt
    [4] => somedir
)
Array
(
    [0] => somedir
    [1] => foo.txt
    [2] => bar.php
    [3] => ..
    [4] => .
)

Example 2. PHP 4 alternatives to scandir()

<?php
$dir = "/tmp";
$dh  = opendir($dir);
while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) {
    $files[] = $filename;
}

sort($files);

print_r($files);

rsort($files);

print_r($files);

?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Array
(
    [0] => .
    [1] => ..
    [2] => bar.php
    [3] => foo.txt
    [4] => somedir
)
Array
(
    [0] => somedir
    [1] => foo.txt
    [2] => bar.php
    [3] => ..
    [4] => .
)

Notes

Related Function(s)

fopen()

opendir()

readdir()

glob()

is_dir()

sort()

dom_domattr_construct()

dom_domattr_isid()

dom_domcharacterdata_appenddata()

dom_domcharacterdata_deletedata()

dom_domcharacterdata_insertdata()

dom_domcharacterdata_replacedata()

dom_domcharacterdata_substringdata()

dom_domcomment_construct()

dom_domdocument_construct()

dom_domdocument_createattribute()

dom_domdocument_createattributens()

dom_domdocument_createcdatasection()

dom_domdocument_createcomment()

dom_domdocument_createdocumentfragment()

dom_domdocument_createelement()

dom_domdocument_createelementns()

dom_domdocument_createentityreference()

dom_domdocument_createprocessinginstruction()

dom_domdocument_createtextnode()

dom_domdocument_getelementbyid()

dom_domdocument_getelementsbytagname()

dom_domdocument_getelementsbytagnamens()

dom_domdocument_importnode()

dom_domdocument_load()

dom_domdocument_loadhtml()

dom_domdocument_loadhtmlfile()

dom_domdocument_loadxml()

dom_domdocument_normalize()

dom_domdocument_relaxngvalidate()

dom_domdocument_relaxngvalidatesource()

dom_domdocument_save()

dom_domdocument_savehtml()

dom_domdocument_savehtmlfile()

dom_domdocument_savexml()

dom_domdocument_schemavalidate()

dom_domdocument_schemavalidatesource()

dom_domdocument_validate()

dom_domdocument_xinclude()

dom_domelement_construct()

dom_domelement_getattribute()

dom_domelement_getattributenode()

dom_domelement_getattributenodens()

dom_domelement_getattributens()

dom_domelement_getelementsbytagname()

dom_domelement_getelementsbytagnamens()

dom_domelement_hasattribute()

dom_domelement_hasattributens()

dom_domelement_removeattribute()

dom_domelement_removeattributenode()

dom_domelement_removeattributens()

dom_domelement_setattribute()

dom_domelement_setattributenode()

dom_domelement_setattributenodens()

dom_domelement_setattributens()

dom_domentityreference_construct()

dom_domimplementation_construct()

dom_domimplementation_createdocument()

dom_domimplementation_createdocumenttype()

dom_domimplementation_hasfeature()

dom_domnode_appendchild()

dom_domnode_clonenode()

dom_domnode_hasattributes()

dom_domnode_haschildnodes()

dom_domnode_insertbefore()

dom_domnode_issamenode()

dom_domnode_issupported()

dom_domnode_lookupnamespaceuri()

dom_domnode_lookupprefix()

dom_domnode_normalize()

dom_domnode_removechild()

dom_domnode_replacechild()

dom_domnodelist_item()

dom_domprocessinginstruction_construct()

dom_domtext_construct()

dom_domtext_iswhitespaceinelementcontent()

dom_domtext_splittext()

dom_domxpath_construct()

dom_domxpath_registernamespace()

dom_domxpath_evaluate()

dom_domxpath_query()

dom_domnamednodemap_getnameditem()

dom_domnamednodemap_getnameditemns()

dom_domnamednodemap_item()

dom_import_simplexml()