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I also want to read the folders and put the folders in a separate array

this is for php on windows os

<?php

$filesarray = array();
$folder_location='C:/Users/Acer/Documents/';
if(!is_readable($folder_location))
{
  echo "You don't have enough permissions to access this folder!";
  die();
}

if ($handle = opendir($folder_location)){
    echo "Opened the folder successfully!<br>\n";
    while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle))) {
        if ($entry != "." && $entry != ".." && is_file($folder_location.''.$entry)) {
            echo "$entry<br />";
            $filesarray[] = $entry;
        }
    }
    closedir($handle);
}
else
{
  echo "There was an error opening the folder!";
  die();
}

print_r($filesarray);
?>

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this reads all the files and puts the files in an array

but I also want to read the folders and put the folders in a separate array

example of folders:
C:/Users/Acer/Documents/pictures/
C:/Users/Acer/Documents/excel/
C:/Users/Acer/Documents/word/
C:/Users/Acer/Documents/notepad/

Rahul Gupta

have a look, this function works for me. you can use different array for file and folder if you want.

$array_items_folder = array();
$array_items_file = array();

function directoryToArray($directory, $recursive) {
    $array_items = array();
    if ($handle = opendir($directory)) {
        while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
            if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
                if (is_dir($directory. "/" . $file)) {
                    if($recursive) {
                        $array_items = array_merge($array_items, directoryToArray($directory. "/" . $file, $recursive));
                    }
                    $file = $directory . "/" . $file;
                    $array_items[] = preg_replace("/\/\//si", "/", $file);
                } else {
                    $file = $directory . "/" . $file;
                    $array_items[] = preg_replace("/\/\//si", "/", $file);
                }
            }
        }
        closedir($handle);
    }
    return $array_items;
}

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rgb192

ASKER

directoryToArray('C:/Users/Acer/Documents/','TRUE');
directoryToArray('C:/Users/Acer/Documents/',1);

what is second parameter

Rahul Gupta

second parameter is boolean true. If you want to iterate through directory hierachy, else false

Rahul Gupta

directoryToArray('C:/Users/Acer/
Documents/','true');

Rahul Gupta

Sorry, the second parameter should be without qote.

directoryToArray('C:/Users/Acer/Documents/',true);

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gr8gonzo

Technically you're using the same approach as before, except you use is_file() to determine if something is a file, while you use is_dir() to determine if something's a directory.

rgb192

ASKER

thanks

I have a related question to read all the files in the folder

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/27998415/all-the-files-in-one-folder-and-all-the-files-that-are-in-that-folder.html