note 87760 added to function.scandir

Here is a function that parses your website's directory tree, similar to the scanDirectories function provided by fatpratmatt. However, this allows you to filter out all files except for those with specific extensions, in addition to allowing you to ignore entire directories, and also has a list of specific files to ignore. One last addition is that it allows you to use a regular expression to ignore another set of files. I use this to walk the directory structure of my website, and to generate a sitemap.xml for Google sitemaps to index my site. This allows me to skip dev, data, library, etc. folders, and files that are not front end files. The way it's written means you don't need to worry about excluding specific files at all unless they have the extension you are looking for (i.e. html or php files). Enjoy. <?php function get_files($root_dir, $all_data=array()) { // only include files with these extensions $allow_extensions = array("php", "html"); // make any specific files you wish to be excluded $ignore_files = array("gdform.php","fishheader.php","fishfooter.php", "sitelinks.php","google204accd1c3ac0501.html","sitemapxml.php", "rotate.php", "fishstockingreport2.php", "repcentral.php", "repne.php", "repnorth.php","reppowell.php","repse.php","repsouth.php","repse.php", "stockreplib.php","iestyles.php"); $ignore_regex = '/^_/'; // skip these directories $ignore_dirs = array(".", "..", "images", "dev", "lib", "data", "osh", "fiq", "google", "stats", "_db_backups", "maps", "php_uploads", "test"); // run through content of root directory $dir_content = scandir($root_dir); foreach($dir_content as $key => $content) { $path = $root_dir.'/'.$content; if(is_file($path) && is_readable($path)) { // skip ignored files if(!in_array($content, $ignore_files)) { if (preg_match($ignore_regex,$content) == 0) { $content_chunks = explode(".",$content); $ext = $content_chunks[count($content_chunks) - 1]; // only include files with desired extensions if (in_array($ext, $allow_extensions)) { // save file name with path $all_data[] = $path; } } } } // if content is a directory and readable, add path and name elseif(is_dir($path) && is_readable($path)) { // skip any ignored dirs if(!in_array($content, $ignore_dirs)) { // recursive callback to open new directory $all_data = get_files($path, $all_data); } } } // end foreach return $all_data; } // end get_files() ?> ---- Server IP: 208.69.120.35 Probable Submitter: 24.16.9.247 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.scandir.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/87760 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87760/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87760/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87760/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87760/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87760/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87760/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87760 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/87760 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php