[Resolved] Reading contents of directory

[harryman100]

OK,
What I want to do, is to have PHP read the contents of a directory and write all the subdirectory names into an array.
So if the file tree looks like this:

-Dir
---Dir1
---Dir2
---Dir3
---Dir4

I want the array to look like this:
array[0] = "Dir1"
array[1] = "Dir2"
array[2] = "Dir3"
array[3] = "Dir4"

Is this possible?

Thanks
Harry

[JimBean]

function directories(){
	$Dir='c:\\mystuff';
	$stack = array ();
	if ($dir = @opendir($Dir)) {
		while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false) {
  			if($file!='.' && $file!='..' && is_dir($Dir.$file)){
  				array_push ($stack, $file);
  			}
  		}  

  		closedir($dir);
  		return $stack;
	}
}

[harryman100]

Hi,

I have tried the above script and keep getting parse errors on the first few lines. I have tried debugging it myself but I keep failing as my knowledge of PHP is not great.

Is the script the same for Linux based versions of PHP?

Does it have any limitations that I should be aware of?

Thanks in advance
Harry

[Weedpacket]

The [man]readdir[/man] manual page contains an example of a script that lists the contents of a directory (Example 1).

To modify that to produce an array instead of just echoing what it finds,
put a line

$directory_listing = array();

just before the first line of that example, and replace the echo line with

$directory_listing[] = $file;

Remember to read the comments in that example; your code should only have the one while() loop!

[harryman100]

Hi, I have now managed to get it working and will put the code up here when I have access to it (currently browsing in windows and can't access my /home directory from here.)

I re-wrote one of the user submitted notes on the readdir page of the docs.

Thanks to everyone for their help.

Harry