is_dir problem

Anon

hi all,

i have following script, as a file browser on a Unix system (Linux). Everything works fine, beside one problem. If the var $dir is "/" he thinks that every dir (e.g: /etc) is a file. He puts the name of the directory into the $arrFile Array altough it should be placed in die $arrDir Array. Obviously the function is_dir does not notive "/etc" to be a directory.

Code:

if ($handle = opendir($dir)) {
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
if($file == "." || $file == ".."){
}else{
if(is_dir($file)) $arrDir[$i] = $file;
else $arrFile[$i] = $file;
}
$i++;
}//while
closedir($handle);
}// if handle

has anybody an idea why ?
thanks in advance

ali

PS: he recognises symbolic links as directorys.

Anon

hmm, i found another thing:

it seems like the dirs in the root neither are dirs (is_dir return false) nor files (is_file returns false, too).

I don't know why but its fact.

can anybody help. i am getting pretty upset =).

thanks all

ali

Full Source can be found here: http://murphy.myip.org/dirlist.php.txt

jc94062

I can barely understand your problem and posting just over 7 hours after your first post with "NO ONE KNOWS ?" is not likely to get much help.

However, I believe, maybe wrongly, that from:

"If the var $dir is "/""

all you want is a way of checking if $dir is just "/", in which case what about

if ($dir == "/")
{
//do something
}

else
{
//do something else
}

Dunno if thats what you want.

If not, and your having problems with is_dir and is_file I believe that there are problems with PHP4.2.0+, due to register_globals being off by default.

I think a www.php.net (or similar mirror site) search for superglobals helps fill you in on that.

Or:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php

warmwind

I would have thought

while($file = readdir($handle))

whould have been preferable to -

while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle)))

try it with that ..

Also: You might want to look at a recursuve system .. ie, put the search into a function, and when it encounters another dir, it calls another version of the function with that dir as the parameter.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot of code out there that does exactly what you want ..

Anon

sorry for being inpolite. It was not what i was aiming at. I solve the problem in a different way, because it seems like php does not like directorys which are not permitted to be executed or to be read.

thanks for your help and sorry one more for my inpolitesnice, it was not ment in that way, it was just a so anoying problem that i looked for a topic which would be a bit attracting some attention.

regards ali