How to recursively read the contents of a directory and subdirectories in PHP

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Andrew R | 13 submission(s)

Date Uploaded:

November 01,2009

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Intermediate

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PHP -> Files

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This sample code is a function that recursively read the contents of a directory and subdirectories. The directory is highlighted with an H2 tag

<?
/*
* This sample code is a function that recursively read the contents of a directory and subdirectories. The directory is highlighted with an H2 tag
*/
function read_dir($dir) {
   $array = array();
   $array[]='<h2>'.$dir.'</h2>';
   $d = dir($dir);
   while (false !== ($entry = $d->read())) {
	   $status='';
       if($entry!='.' && $entry!='..') {
           $entry = $dir.'/'.$entry;
           if(is_dir($entry)) {
               $array = array_merge($array, read_dir($entry));
           } else {
               $array[] = $entry;
           }
       }
   }
   $d->close();
   return $array;
}
 
 ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Recursively reading the content of a directory and subdirectories in PHP</title>
</head>

<body style="font-family:tahoma; font-size:11px; color:#333;">
    <pre>
    <?
        print_r(read_dir(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'])));
    ?>
    </pre>
</body>
</html>

User Reviews

sam
[29-Jan-2012]

Excellent code...Thanks for this

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