What's the best way to do this...dir recursion

s_shrum

I have a script that needs to load ini files and combine them to makes 1 array.

These ini files (which will always be named 'cats.ini') are in subdirectories like so:
[pre]
/root
-cats.ini
/some
/other
-cats.ini
/subdirectories
-cats.ini[/pre]
Assuming that we are starting at the deepest subdirectory, what would be the best way to recurse up to /root, stopping at each parent dir to check for and subsequently read, the cats.ini located there? My first though was having to parse the full path and strip it down one '/' everytime but I thought there might be an easier way.

I want to construct an array where the deeper ini files have presidence over the less nested files (this I sorta know how to do) by merging.

TIA

drawmack

[man]cwd[/man]
[man]explode[/man]

use those to build an array that lists the directories down to the present directory then work your way back up the chain.

s_shrum

Here's how I'm doing it:

$subdir_array = split( "/", $script_array['relative'] );
foreach($subdir_array as $key => $value) {
	$pathname .= $value . "/";
	print "CATS_INI : Loading defaults from [url]http://[/url]" . $_ENV['HOSTNAME'] . $pathname . "cats.ini...<br>";
	$defaults_array = array_merge ( $defaults_array, ini_parse("http://" . $_ENV['HOSTNAME'] . $pathname . "cats.ini"));
}

In case you were wondering.