note 59000 added to function.glob

I've written a function that I've been using quite a lot over the past year or so. I've built whole websites and their file based CMSs based on this one function, mostly because (I think) databases are not as portable as groups of files and folders. In previous versions, I used opendir and readdir to get contents, but now I can do in one line what used to take several. How? Most of the work in the whole script is done by calling glob("$dir/*") Giving me an array containing the names of the items in the folder, minus the ones beginning with '.', as well as the ones I specify. <?php /* alpharead version 3: This function returns an array containing the names of the files inside any given folder, excluding files that start with a '.', as well as the filenames listed in the '$killit' array. This array is sorted using the 'natural alphabetical' sorting manner. If no input is given to the function, it lists items in the script's interpreted folder. Version 3 fixes a MAJOR bug in version 2 which corrupted certain arrays with greater than 5 keys and one of the supposedly removed filenames. written by Admiral at NuclearPixel.com */ function alpharead3($dir){ if(!$dir){$dir = '.';} foreach(glob("$dir/*") as $item){$sort[]= end(explode('/',$item));} $killit = array('index.html', 'index.php', 'thumbs.db', 'styles.css'); $killcounter = 0; foreach($sort as $sorteditem){ foreach($killit as $killcheck){ if(strtolower($sorteditem) == strtolower($killcheck)) {unset($sort[$killcounter]);} }$killcounter++;} if($sort){natsort($sort);} foreach($sort as $item){$return[]= $item;} if(!$return){return array();} return $return; } //some basic usage $folder = 'images'; foreach(alpharead3($folder) as $item) { echo '<img src="'.$folder.'/'.$item.'"><br>'.$item."\n"; } ?> Commens on this function are welcome! ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.glob.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+59000 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59000&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59000&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59000&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59000&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59000&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59000&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59000&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+59000&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php