Check if specific folder contains files, folders, both or none?

PHP
1

Good day to you all,
is there a way to check if a specific folder contains: files, folder, both or none ?

I read my folder with Glob, like my code here :



<?PHP
function globDir($dir)
{
   $files = glob("$dir/*", GLOB_ONLYDIR);
   
	 if(!empty($files))
   {
      echo "<ul>\
";

      foreach($files as $file)
      {
         echo "<li><b>". basename($file)."</b>\
";
         globDir($file);
         echo "</li>\
";
      }
      echo "</ul>\
";
   }
}
globDir('Photos');
?>

The only thing I have really found is how to find if a specific file exists.

I’m trying to find out if a specific folder contains : files, folders, both, none.
It would return the appropriate word accordingly.

Thanks and take care!

2

Quite unusual task. What’s the use of such information?

Though the only way for your answer is to get whole folder contents and loop over it.
or 2 glob() calls, only files and only dirs
I don’t understand your problem.
You already have glob(“$dir/*”, GLOB_ONLYDIR);
so you can tell if there any folders.
add another call for the files and you are set.

3

To check if only the ‘Photos’ folder contains files and/or folders, you could try the code below.


function globDir($dir)
{
    $files = glob($dir.'/*');
     if(!empty($files))
     {
      echo "The <b>".$dir."</b> folder contains:\
";
      echo "<ul>\
";

      foreach($files as $file)
      {
         $filetype = '';
         $filetype = is_dir($file) ? 'folder' : 'file';

         $file = str_replace($dir.'/', '', $file);

         echo "<li><b>".$file."</b> - ".$filetype."</li>\
";
      }

      echo "</ul>\
";
   } else {
      echo "The <b>".$dir."</b> folder is empty.\
";
   }
}
globDir('Photos');
4

Nice, but what i’m trying to find out here is whether or not there is file in the folder, if yes write it as a link if no right it in bold.