note 57147 added to ref.spl

There is a RecursiveFilterIterator that makes the above code much easier. And then ther is ParentIterator thta is already a filtering recursive iterator that only accepts elements that have children, with a RecursiveDirectoryIterator as inner iterator you would obviously get only the directories. Further more it ensures that it creates the correct children. All in all you simply need to do this: $it = RecursiveDirectoryIterator($path); $it = ParentIterator($it); $it = new RecursiveIteratorIteator($it); foreach($it as $dir => $o) { ... } ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.spl.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+57147 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+57147&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+57147&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+57147&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+57147&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+57147&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+57147&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+57147&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+57147&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php