Re: RecursiveDirectoryIterator and foreach

Ryan Panning wrote:

I have discovered that when I foreach over a RecursiveDirectoryIterator (see example below) the $item actually turns into a SplFileInfo object. I would expect it to be a RecursiveDirectoryIterator. How do I do a hasChildren() on SplFileInfo?

seems like expected functionality to me, you're looping over the contents of the directory and that can only be a file or a directory - thus SplFileInfo seems correct? in short you don't call hasChildren() on SplFileInfo, you call it on RecursiveDirectoryIterator. From the docs: RecursiveDirectoryIterator::hasChildren — Returns whether current entry is a directory and not '.' or '..' RecursiveDirectoryIterator::getChildren — Returns an iterator for the current entry if it is a directory Thus this is how you call getChildren properly: $dir = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator( dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) ); foreach($dir as $splFileInfo) { if( $dir->hasChildren() ) {

    $childDir = $dir->getChildren();
    echo get_class($childDir) . ' ' . $childDir->getPath() .  PHP_EOL;

} } many regards, Nathan