#48365 [Com]: glob() function returns empty array

ID: 48365 Comment by: peter dot chen at itg dot com Reported By: peter dot chen at itg dot com Status: Feedback Bug Type: Apache2 related Operating System: sparc-sol2.10 PHP Version: 5.2.9 New Comment: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>glob test</title> </head> <body> <? $path = "/home/apache/htdocs/testkt/"; print("<b>glob:</b><br><br>"); print_r(glob($path . '*.*';)); print("<br><br>***********************<br><br>"); print("<b>scandir:</b><br><br>"); print_r(scandir($path)); ?> </body> </html> Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-05-22 19:43:37] jani@php.net Please provide proper example script. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-05-22 19:38:20] peter dot chen at itg dot com Description: ------------ I am trying to use glob() to display the contents of a directory I store the path in a variable ($path). When I give $path as an argument to glob($path), it returns an empty array. When I give it to scandir($path), it returns all the files in that path. Reproduce code: --------------- --- From manual page: function.glob --- Expected result: ---------------- Array ( [0] => . [1] => .. [2] => authtest [3] => globtest.php [4] => globtest.php.LCK [5] => globtest2.php [6] => home.php.LCK ) Actual result: -------------- Array ( ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=48365&edit=1