Re: List files in a directory using filters and exclusions

On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 21:39:15 -0400 (CDT), rsantamaria@hab.uci.cu ("Rolando Santamaria Maso") wrote: >Hi PHP community, here I bring a very simple and interesting function that >I made for a project, it's objetive is "to list path files in a directory >with the possibility of using filters and exclusions". > >What do you think about? >----------------------- > > function get_files($path, &$result, Array $exclusions, Array $filters) > { > @$dir_content = scandir($path); > if ($dir_content) > { > $end = count($dir_content); > $i = 2; > > for ($i; $i < $end; $i++) > { > $path_and_element = $path.'/'.$dir_content[$i]; > if (array_search($path_and_element, $exclusions) === false) > { > if (array_search(substr($dir_content[$i], >strlen($dir_content[$i]) - 4), $filters) !== false) > { > $result[] = $path_and_element; > } > > if (is_dir($path_and_element)) > { > get_files($path_and_element, $result, $exclusions, >$filters); > } > } > } > } > } > > > $path = '/var/www'; > $result = array(); > $exclusions = array('/var/www/drupal', '/var/www/wp'); > $filters = array('.php'); > > get_files($path, $result, $exclusions, $filters); > > echo "<pre>"; > print_r($result); > die(); I have just written a recursive backup program, and used a slightly different exclusion procedure: $exclusions = array ('...drupal' => true, 'Images' =>'true', .... ); if (!isset($exclusions[$file])) { [copy file to backup ] } This looks simpler, and therefore quicker, but I suspect it is just putting the complexity out of sight! > >------------------------------------------------------------ >Greetings!!!! >