include()'ing directories...?

[daarius]

we all know that we can include a file by simply doing include('file.inc');

but can we include an entire content of a folder? e.g. i have 10 files in a folder and i want to include() them without doing them one by one.

something like this will be desireable:

include('/http/.');

possible?

regards,
Daarius...

[Anon]

No...but you can loop thru the directory and include all the files in that dir...Read the documentation on opendir() and readdir()

Diego

[Anon]

You can't include them all at once, but you can use a loop:

$dp = opendir($include_dir);
while (false !== ($file = readdir($dp))) {
if (is_file($file) && preg_match("/.inc$/", $file)) {
include $file;
}
}

This loop will include every file in the directory stored in $include_dir that ends with .inc

[[deleted]]

Why would you ever want to include all files in a directory?

As soon as you do that, you loose control over which files are included, which means that if the wrong file made it's way into the directory, your application goes belly-up.

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[daarius]

Thanks all for the ideas. they have worked!

And vincent,
I just needed this functionality in one of my functions which provides Java like class library imports.

e.g. the interface i provide is:

phpobject_import('http.THttpURL');

where i have more classes in http package, so a user if wants, can include them all like:

phpobject_import('http.*');

By the way, i am working on php classes library. will be up soon on phpobject.com

regards,
Daarius...

[majik-sheff]

I didn't say it was a good idea, I just said my code would work. 8^P