note 119237 added to function.opendir

Sometimes the programmer needs to access folder content which has arabic name but the opendir function will return null resources id for that we must convert the dirname charset from utf-8 to windows-1256 by the iconv function just if the preg_match function detect arabic characters and use " U " additionality to enable multibyte matching <?php $dir = ("./"); // on this file dir // detect if the path has arabic characters and use " u " optional to enable function to match multibyte characters if (preg_match('#[\x{0600}-\x{06FF}]#iu', $dir) ) { // convert input ( utf-8 ) to output ( windows-1256 ) $dir = iconv("utf-8","windows-1256",$dir); } if( is_dir($dir) ) { if( ( $dh = opendir($dir) ) !== null ) { while ( ( $file = readdir($dh) ) !== false ) { echo "filename: ".$file ." filetype : ".filetype($dir.$file)."<br/>"; } } } ?> ---- Server IP: 72.52.91.14 Probable Submitter: 89.203.15.153 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.opendir.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/119237 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/119237/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/119237/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/119237/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/119237/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/119237/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/119237/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/119237 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/119237 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php