List all directory files php

To save one line. RazvanGrigore I'm not sure how this helps with non. Wouldn't you still need to filter those out? Show 1 more comment. Zkanoca's version is fine, your answer isn't really needed, a comment was sufficient on his.

This just comes down to coding style. Angel Politis Hope this helps. Koushik Das Koushik Das 6, 3 3 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. Since you added an answer two years after the question was posed: why would I want to use yours over the accepted answer or the idiomatic RecursiveDirectorIterator solution? I have started learning PHP just a few months back. I searched for a solution on this question but tried to come up with my own solution as well. I posted it thinking that maybe if my solution helps someone.

This worked for me. The true option made the difference and tiny tidy and efficient. Thanks — Syed. Okay, back to the program I'm actually using this in Thanks but this function does not list directories.

Files only — Deniz Porsuk. DenizPorsuk good pickup, must've missed that in the question at the time. I've added an optional argument to include directories or not. Tom Chan Tom Chan 99 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. Max Max 10 10 bronze badges. To whom needs list files first than folders with alphabetical older. Deniz P. Deniz Porsuk Deniz Porsuk 1 1 gold badge 6 6 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges.

Rain Rain 2, 1 1 gold badge 13 13 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. Alin Razvan Alin Razvan 1, 13 13 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Jydipsinh Parmar Jydipsinh Parmar 5 5 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Roman Roman I came up with the following line of code that will result in an array listing only files. Here is my recursive function, placing directories into new array keys and its contents within.

This function generates a list of all files in the chosen directory and all subdirectories, throws them into a NON-multidimentional array and returns them.

Most of the recursive functions on this page only return a multi-dimensional array. I made this to represent a directory tree in an array that uses the file or directory names as keys and full paths as the value for files.

Directories are nested arrays. Unless you specify no sorting, file names are sorted in ASCII alphabetic order, meaning numbers first, then uppercase, then lowercase letters, even on operating systems whose file system ignores the case of file names when it does its own sorting.

For example, on Mac OS, the following files will appear in this order in the Finder, when your disk is formated using the standard file system: 1file. I wrote this function to read a folder and place all the folders and sub folders it contains into an array. Back in the saddle of scandir I wrote this function for a function that I needed to seperate directories from files.

Since I am still learning from my last example way below I would figure I would add it so it can be criticized. Here is such a function. By default, this function will keep in memory the scandir result, to avoid scaning multiple time for the same directory.

Requires at least PHP5. Since scandir returns and array, here is a more concise method of dealing with the '. You have to perform post-filtering yourself to get what you want. They represent the current directory and the parent directory the up-level folder respectively.

It has only one mandatory parameter: the path to read. The value returned is an array of the files and directories contained in the path. Just like the last solution, to retrieve a subset of files and directories, you have to do post-filtering yourself.

But before going into deep about their use, let me introduce them and the SPL library. The SPL provides a series of classes for object-oriented data structures, iterators, file handlers, and other features. One of the pros is that Iterators are classes and so you can extend them to better fit your needs. Another advantage is that they have native methods that are really helpful in achieving many of the common task you might face and you have them in just one place. Take as an example the use of FilesystemIterator among readdir , both of them will be used in a loop but while using readdir your entry will be nothing but a string, using FilesystemIterator you have an object that can provide you a lot of information about that file or directory size, owner, permissions and so on.

So, in conclusion, my advice here is to follow the new best practices for the language.