PHP most efficient way to list the files in a very large directory

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John picture John · Mar 30, 2011 · Viewed 19.5k times · Source

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PHP: scandir() is too slow

I have a directory with tens of thousands of files in it and I want to display a list of these files on a page. I tried doing it with scandir and it takes forever. What would be an efficient method of achieving this?

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eisberg picture eisberg · Mar 30, 2011

I recommend using DirectoryIterator or RecursiveDirectoryIterator.

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