Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52647&edit=1
ID: 52647
Updated by: cmb@php.net
Reported by: shaun dot spiller at yahoo dot com
Summary: Function to get Windows drive letters
Status: Open
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package: Filesystem function related
Operating System: Windows
PHP Version: 5.3.3
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
If anybody is still interested in this function, please submit a
respective pull request[1]; this bug tracker is barely suitable
for the potentially necessary discussion.
[1] <https://github.com/php/php-src/pulls>
Previous Comments:
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[2012-07-31 19:30:31] sodijfsdoifjsoidfj at osidjfoidsfj dot com
This does it in PHP-only code, but it takes about half a second to load the COM object, so it's
probably no use except in long-running CLI scripts, or unless you cache the result for a while.
function filesys_get_roots() {
static $roots = null;
if ($roots === null) {
if (strncasecmp(PHP_OS, 'WIN', 3) === 0) {
$fso = new COM('Scripting.FileSystemObject');
foreach ($fso->Drives as $drive) {
$roots[] = $drive->DriveLetter . ':\\';
}
} else {
$roots = array('/');
}
}
return $roots;
}
Really the function needs to be in the PHP core.
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[2011-10-27 20:14:53] shaun dot spiller at yahoo dot com
@fate at jehy dot ru
'Twas the very first thing I tried. The problem is it spins up sleeping drives. For the floppy
drive it had the particularly nasty effect of displaying this message on the desktop: "Windows
- No Disk: There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive. Cancel / Try Again /
Continue".
That's not very good in CLI and certainly no good in a web server environment, and I was making
a remote file access script, you see. It needed a proper API call, one way or another.
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[2011-10-27 12:11:29] pajoye@php.net
@fate at jehy dot ru
it could be handy and it costs less to do it using the system's API direclty.
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[2011-10-27 11:56:43] fate at jehy dot ru
So useless.
function get_drives()
{
$d='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
$drives='';
for($i=0;$i<strlen($d);$i++)
if(is_dir($d[$i].':\\'))
$drives.=$d[$i];
echo $drives;
}
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[2011-05-26 23:53:20] asdasdioj at asdojiojasd dot asdasd
I check back here every day for progress. Never happens. I'm non-plussed as to how this feature
got overlooked for so long, or what mythical issues pajoye thinks there are with my lovely code. :-(
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