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List all files in a directory

With this codesnippet you can very easily list all the files in a directory, effectively creating a web-based filemanager (if you extend it with other functions).

 if ($handle = opendir('/path/to/files')) {

                echo "Directory handle: $handle\n";

                echo "Files:\n";

            

                // List all the files

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

                    echo "$file\n";

                }

            

                closedir($handle);

            }
 ?>

This code snippet was posted on Saturday, May 22nd, 2004 at 5:32 am and is filed under Code Snippets, Files and related. You can follow any comments on this code snippet through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “List all files in a directory”

dj Says:
October 24th, 2005 at 7:28 pm
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Karl Greenhalgh Says:
November 10th, 2005 at 12:37 am
An example if you want all of a specific file type in a directory.

$GalleryDirectory = “albums/”;
foreach (glob(”$GalleryDirectory/{*.gif,*.jpg,*.png,*.GIF,*.JPG,*.PNG}”, GLOB_BRACE) as $photo)
{
echo

endHTML;
}
Karl Greenhalgh Says:
November 10th, 2005 at 12:40 am
Sorry it edited my code out. in the foreach echo use img src=$photo
Nino Says:
March 31st, 2006 at 5:48 pm
Doing with foreach is better.

And the while in this case is way to complicated, with booleans and everything.
Kevin Loring Says:
June 8th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
IS there any way to create an array of images from a specified directory (Says, /pics/)
then preload each image from the newly created array? I would also need some sort of progress bar to illuminate progression after which a redirect would be required.

Any suggestions?

List all files in a directory

5 Responses to “List all files in a directory”

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