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These are a couple of functions i use to get the directories and files from a specific folder. This is a recursive function and brings the sub directories as well. Returns an array.

First param is the folder path to start
Second param tells the function if it needs to bring the files inside the folder
Third param tells if the function needs to bring sub directories as well.

$folders = array();
folderlist(”testserver” , true , true);
print_r($folders);

function folderlist($folder_path = “” , $getfiles = true , $tree=true){
  global $folders;
  $handle = opendir($folder_path.”/.”);
  while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
   if ($file != “.” && $file != “..”) {
    if(is_dir($folder_path.”/”.$file)){
    if($getfiles){
      $fileshere = filelist($folder_path.”/”.$file);
       $folders[] = array(”foldername” => $folder_path.”/”.$file  ,
                        “files” => $fileshere
                        );
     }else{
     $folders[] = array(”foldername” => $folder_path.”/”.$file);
     }
     if($tree) folderlist($folder_path.”/”.$file);
  }
 } } return $folders;
}

function filelist($folder_path){
  $files = array();
  $handle = opendir($folder_path.”/.”);
  while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
    if ($file != “.” && $file != “..”) {
     if(!is_dir($folder_path.”/”.$file)){
      $files[] = $folder_path.”/”.$file;
     }
    }
  }
  return $files;
}

This entry was posted on Saturday, December 9th, 2006 at 9:32 pm by Sabeen Malik and is filed under PHP. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.