Getting all files from a directory

[nasio]

Is there a special function that will get all files from a given directory and put them in an array?

[freddydoesphp]

There is no special built in function but here is user-defined function.

<?
    function list_files($dir = ".") {
        $d = dir($dir);
        while($file = $d->read()) {
            if (($file != ".") && ($file != "..")) {
                $files[] =  $file;
                }
            else {
                continue;
                }    
            }
        $d->close();
        return $files;
        }


    //Sample Usage takes optional argument 
    //- path to directory to list, defaults to current dir.
    $filelist = list_files("path/to/list");    
    foreach($filelist as $val) {
        print "$val<br>";
        }

exit;
?>

[qslack]

You can do this:

passthru("ls DIRECTORY_NAME", $dircontents); 

Then you can split $dircontents by "\n" and you will get an array.

That should work...tell me if it doesn't.

[qslack]

Err, freddydoesphp got to it before me. And he came up with a better solution