note 99152 added to function.glob

If you need to retrieve files that are in another folder than your PHP script and want to use glob because you think it's shorter than the oldfashioned readdir loop, forget about it. Let's say your script is in the base folder of your webspace and you have a folder called "myfolder" in it, from which you want to retrieve all files into an array. The result will be something like: myfolder/this.txt myfolder/that.txt myfolder/something.txt myfolder/blah.txt As you can see, you will have to write an additional loop to get rid of "myfolder/" and have the filenames alone, so you might as well use: if ($foldername = opendir("myfolder")) { while (false !== ($filename = readdir($foldername))) { if ($filename != "." && $filename != "..") { $files[] = $filename; } } closedir($foldername); } Which gives you: this.txt that.txt something.txt blah.txt ---- Server IP: 194.153.94.10 Probable Submitter: 188.60.132.144 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.glob.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/99152 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99152/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99152/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99152/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99152/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99152/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99152/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/99152 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/99152 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php