PHP: Get all files and folders from a directory (folder)

Posted on 16. Jun, 2009 by Dragos in Coding, PHP

To get all files and folders from a directory (folder) I found scandir to be the perfect solution.

scandir scans a directory and returns an array containing all files and directories under the parent directory we’re looking in.

The code below will try to remove a directory, if the element is a directory or delete a file, if respectively the element is a file.

$lookin='./home/folder';
$elements=scandir($lookin);
foreach($elements as $singleEl) {
     if(is_dir($lookin.'/'.$singleEl)) rmdir($lookin.'/'.$singleEl);
     else
     unlink($lookin.'/'.$singleEl);
}

                    
                    

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