opendir

Description

Returns a directory handle to be used in subsequent closedir(), readdir(), and rewinddir() calls.

If path is not a valid directory or the directory can not be opened due to permission restrictions or filesystem errors, opendir() returns FALSE and generates a PHP error of level E_WARNING. You can suppress the error output of opendir() by prepending '@' to the front of the function name.

Example 1. opendir() example <?php $dir = "/tmp/"; // Open a known directory, and proceed to read its contents if (is_dir($dir)) { if ($dh = opendir($dir)) { while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) { print "filename: $file : filetype: " . filetype($dir . $file) . "\n"; } closedir($dh); } } ?>

As of PHP 4.3.0 path can also be any URL which supports directory listing, however only the file:// url wrapper supports this in PHP 4.3. As of PHP 5.0.0, support for the ftp:// url wrapper is included as well.

See also is_dir(), readdir(), and Dir