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php foreach directory glob
Jens Törnell picture Jens Törnell · Apr 24, 2011 · Viewed 22.2k times · Source

I have this working function that finds folders and creates an array.

function dua_get_files($path)
{
    foreach (glob($path . "/*", GLOB_ONLYDIR) as $filename)
    {
        $dir_paths[] = $filename;   
    }
    return $dir_paths;
}

This function can only find the directories on the current location. I want to find the directory paths in the child folders and their children and so on.

The array should still be a flat list of directory paths.

An example of how the output array should look like

$dir_path[0] = 'path/folder1';
$dir_path[1] = 'path/folder1/child_folder1';
$dir_path[2] = 'path/folder1/child_folder2';
$dir_path[3] = 'path/folder2';
$dir_path[4] = 'path/folder2/child_folder1';
$dir_path[5] = 'path/folder2/child_folder2';
$dir_path[6] = 'path/folder2/child_folder3';

Answer

Pascal MARTIN picture Pascal MARTIN · Apr 24, 2011

If you want to recursively work on directories, you should take a look at the RecursiveDirectoryIterator.

$path = realpath('/etc');

$objects = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($path), RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST);
foreach($objects as $name => $object){
    echo "$name\n";
}

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