List all the files and folders in a Directory with PHP recursive function

Question

I'm trying to go through all of the files in a directory, and if there is a directory, go through all of its files and so on until there are no more directories to go to. Each and every processed item will be added to a results array in the function below. It is not working though I'm not sure what I can do/what I did wrong, but the browser runs insanely slow when this code below is processed, any help is appreciated, thanks!

Code:

    function getDirContents($dir){
        $results = array();
        $files = scandir($dir);

            foreach($files as $key => $value){
                if(!is_dir($dir. DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .$value)){
                    $results[] = $value;
                } else if(is_dir($dir. DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .$value)) {
                    $results[] = $value;
                    getDirContents($dir. DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .$value);
                }
            }
    }

    print_r(getDirContents('/xampp/htdocs/WORK'));

`RecursiveDirectoryIterator` – u_mulder Jul 16 '14 at 14:49 — u_mulder, Jul 16 '14 at 14:49

user2226755 · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-25T22:32:25.917

Get all the files and folders in a directory, don't call function when you have . or ...

Your code :

<?php
function getDirContents($dir, &$results = array()) {
    $files = scandir($dir);

    foreach ($files as $key => $value) {
        $path = realpath($dir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $value);
        if (!is_dir($path)) {
            $results[] = $path;
        } else if ($value != "." && $value != "..") {
            getDirContents($path, $results);
            $results[] = $path;
        }
    }

    return $results;
}

var_dump(getDirContents('/xampp/htdocs/WORK'));

Output (example) :

array (size=12)
  0 => string '/xampp/htdocs/WORK/iframe.html' (length=30)
  1 => string '/xampp/htdocs/WORK/index.html' (length=29)
  2 => string '/xampp/htdocs/WORK/js' (length=21)
  3 => string '/xampp/htdocs/WORK/js/btwn.js' (length=29)
  4 => string '/xampp/htdocs/WORK/js/qunit' (length=27)
  5 => string '/xampp/htdocs/WORK/js/qunit/qunit.css' (length=37)
  6 => string '/xampp/htdocs/WORK/js/qunit/qunit.js' (length=36)
  7 => string '/xampp/htdocs/WORK/js/unit-test.js' (length=34)
  8 => string '/xampp/htdocs/WORK/xxxxx.js' (length=30)
  9 => string '/xampp/htdocs/WORK/plane.png' (length=28)
  10 => string '/xampp/htdocs/WORK/qunit.html' (length=29)
  11 => string '/xampp/htdocs/WORK/styles.less' (length=30)

I think that this condition should be added inside the `else if` if we scan dirs recursively (to avoid folder paths in the output): `getDirContents($path, $results); if (!is_dir($path)) { $results[] = $path; }` — Andrew, Dec 14 '22 at 17:18

score 150 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 05 '23 at 16:12

150

$rii = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator('path/to/folder'));
$files = array(); 

/** @var SplFileInfo $file */
foreach ($rii as $file) {
    if ($file->isDir()){ 
        continue;
    }
         
    $files[] = $file->getPathname();        
}

var_dump($files);

This will bring you all the files with paths.

edited Feb 05 '23 at 16:12

James Bond

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answered Jul 16 '14 at 14:55

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Is there no way to do this without the built in object? – user3412869 Jul 16 '14 at 14:57
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Or you can reverse the condition : `if (!$file->isDir()) $files[] = $file->getPathname();`. To save one line. – user2226755 Feb 10 '16 at 12:53
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One could also avoid the continue by using [RecursiveDirectoryIterator::SKIP_DOTS](http://php.net/manual/ro/class.filesystemiterator.php#filesystemiterator.constants.skip-dots) – Razvan Grigore Mar 08 '18 at 15:28
Change foreach to: `$Regex = new RegexIterator($rii, '/^.+\.php$/i', RecursiveRegexIterator::GET_MATCH);` – xayer Oct 20 '19 at 12:26
@RazvanGrigore I'm not sure how this helps with non `.` and `..` directories. Wouldn't you still need to filter those out? – War10ck Feb 13 '20 at 16:15

score 33 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 16 '22 at 07:40

This is a function to get all the files and folders in a directory with RecursiveIteratorIterator.

See contructor doc : https://www.php.net/manual/en/recursiveiteratoriterator.construct.php

function getDirContents($path) {
    $rii = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($path));

    $files = array(); 
    foreach ($rii as $file)
        if (!$file->isDir())
            $files[] = $file->getPathname();

    return $files;
}

var_dump(getDirContents($path));

bmatovu · Answer 4 · 2019-07-21T16:04:09.233

This could help if you wish to get directory contents as an array, ignoring hidden files and directories.

function dir_tree($dir_path)
{
    $rdi = new \RecursiveDirectoryIterator($dir_path);

    $rii = new \RecursiveIteratorIterator($rdi);

    $tree = [];

    foreach ($rii as $splFileInfo) {
        $file_name = $splFileInfo->getFilename();

        // Skip hidden files and directories.
        if ($file_name[0] === '.') {
            continue;
        }

        $path = $splFileInfo->isDir() ? array($file_name => array()) : array($file_name);

        for ($depth = $rii->getDepth() - 1; $depth >= 0; $depth--) {
            $path = array($rii->getSubIterator($depth)->current()->getFilename() => $path);
        }

        $tree = array_merge_recursive($tree, $path);
    }

    return $tree;
}

The result would be something like;

dir_tree(__DIR__.'/public');

[
    'css' => [
        'style.css',
        'style.min.css',
    ],
    'js' => [
        'script.js',
        'script.min.js',
    ],
    'favicon.ico',
]

Source

score 12 · Answer 5 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 08:52

Get all the files with filter (2nd argument) and folders in a directory, don't call function when you have . or ...

Your code :

<?php
function getDirContents($dir, $filter = '', &$results = array()) {
    $files = scandir($dir);

    foreach($files as $key => $value){
        $path = realpath($dir.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$value); 

        if(!is_dir($path)) {
            if(empty($filter) || preg_match($filter, $path)) $results[] = $path;
        } elseif($value != "." && $value != "..") {
            getDirContents($path, $filter, $results);
        }
    }

    return $results;
} 

// Simple Call: List all files
var_dump(getDirContents('/xampp/htdocs/WORK'));

// Regex Call: List php files only
var_dump(getDirContents('/xampp/htdocs/WORK', '/\.php$/'));

Output (example) :

// Simple Call
array(13) {
  [0]=> string(69) "/xampp/htdocs/WORK.htaccess"
  [1]=> string(73) "/xampp/htdocs/WORKConverter.php"
  [2]=> string(69) "/xampp/htdocs/WORKEvent.php"
  [3]=> string(70) "/xampp/htdocs/WORKdefault_filter.json"
  [4]=> string(68) "/xampp/htdocs/WORKdefault_filter.xml"
  [5]=> string(80) "/xampp/htdocs/WORKCaching/ApcCache.php"
  [6]=> string(84) "/xampp/htdocs/WORKCaching/CacheFactory.php"
}

// Regex Call
array(13) {
  [0]=> string(69) "/xampp/htdocs/WORKEvent.php"
  [1]=> string(73) "/xampp/htdocs/WORKConverter.php"
  [2]=> string(80) "/xampp/htdocs/WORKCaching/ApcCache.php"
  [3]=> string(84) "/xampp/htdocs/WORKCaching/CacheFactory.php"
}

James Cameron's proposition.

patriziotomato · Answer 6 · 2022-08-16T09:55:20.827

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My proposal without ugly "foreach" control structures is

$iterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($path));
$allFiles = array_filter(iterator_to_array($iterator), fn($file) $file->isFile());

You may only want to extract the filepath, which you can do so by:

array_keys($allFiles);

Still 4 lines of code, but more straight forward than using a loop or something.

edited Aug 16 '22 at 09:55

answered Jan 13 '17 at 14:01

patriziotomato

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score 5 · Answer 7 · answered May 23 '16 at 06:32

Here is what I came up with and this is with not much lines of code

function show_files($start) {
    $contents = scandir($start);
    array_splice($contents, 0,2);
    echo "<ul>";
    foreach ( $contents as $item ) {
        if ( is_dir("$start/$item") && (substr($item, 0,1) != '.') ) {
            echo "<li>$item</li>";
            show_files("$start/$item");
        } else {
            echo "<li>$item</li>";
        }
    }
    echo "</ul>";
}

show_files('./');

It outputs something like

..idea
.add.php
.add_task.php
.helpers
 .countries.php
.mysqli_connect.php
.sort.php
.test.js
.test.php
.view_tasks.php

** The dots are the dots of unoordered list.

Hope this helps.

score 4 · Answer 8 · answered Nov 18 '19 at 04:49

Add relative path option:

function getDirContents($dir, $relativePath = false)
{
    $fileList = array();
    $iterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($dir));
    foreach ($iterator as $file) {
        if ($file->isDir()) continue;
        $path = $file->getPathname();
        if ($relativePath) {
            $path = str_replace($dir, '', $path);
            $path = ltrim($path, '/\\');
        }
        $fileList[] = $path;
    }
    return $fileList;
}

print_r(getDirContents('/path/to/dir'));

print_r(getDirContents('/path/to/dir', true));

Output:

Array
(
    [0] => /path/to/dir/test1.html
    [1] => /path/to/dir/test.html
    [2] => /path/to/dir/index.php
)

Array
(
    [0] => test1.html
    [1] => test.html
    [2] => index.php
)

majick · Answer 9 · 2018-11-05T02:21:38.263

Here's a modified version of Hors answer, works slightly better for my case, as it strips out the base directory that is passed as it goes, and has a recursive switch that can be set to false which is also handy. Plus to make the output more readable, I've separated the file and subdirectory files, so the files are added first then the subdirectory files (see result for what I mean.)

I tried a few other methods and suggestions around and this is what I ended up with. I had another working method already that was very similar, but seemed to fail where there was a subdirectory with no files but that subdirectory had a subsubdirectory with files, it didn't scan the subsubdirectory for files - so some answers may need to be tested for that case.)... anyways thought I'd post my version here too in case someone is looking...

function get_filelist_as_array($dir, $recursive = true, $basedir = '', $include_dirs = false) {
    if ($dir == '') {return array();} else {$results = array(); $subresults = array();}
    if (!is_dir($dir)) {$dir = dirname($dir);} // so a files path can be sent
    if ($basedir == '') {$basedir = realpath($dir).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;}

    $files = scandir($dir);
    foreach ($files as $key => $value){
        if ( ($value != '.') && ($value != '..') ) {
            $path = realpath($dir.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$value);
            if (is_dir($path)) {
                // optionally include directories in file list
                if ($include_dirs) {$subresults[] = str_replace($basedir, '', $path);}
                // optionally get file list for all subdirectories
                if ($recursive) {
                    $subdirresults = get_filelist_as_array($path, $recursive, $basedir, $include_dirs);
                    $results = array_merge($results, $subdirresults);
                }
            } else {
                // strip basedir and add to subarray to separate file list
                $subresults[] = str_replace($basedir, '', $path);
            }
        }
    }
    // merge the subarray to give the list of files then subdirectory files
    if (count($subresults) > 0) {$results = array_merge($subresults, $results);}
    return $results;
}

I suppose one thing to be careful of it not to pass a $basedir value to this function when calling it... mostly just pass the $dir (or passing a filepath will work now too) and optionally $recursive as false if and as needed. The result:

[0] => demo-image.png
[1] => filelist.php
[2] => tile.png
[3] => 2015\header.png
[4] => 2015\08\background.jpg

Enjoy! Okay, back to the program I'm actually using this in...

UPDATE Added extra argument for including directories in the file list or not (remembering other arguments will need to be passed to use this.) eg.

$results = get_filelist_as_array($dir, true, '', true);

score 2 · Answer 10 · answered Mar 01 '16 at 13:47

This solution did the job for me. The RecursiveIteratorIterator lists all directories and files recursively but unsorted. The program filters the list and sorts it.

I'm sure there is a way to write this shorter; feel free to improve it. It is just a code snippet. You may want to pimp it to your purposes.

<?php

$path = '/pth/to/your/directories/and/files';
// an unsorted array of dirs & files
$files_dirs = iterator_to_array( new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($path),RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST) );

echo '<html><body><pre>';
// create a new associative multi-dimensional array with dirs as keys and their files
$dirs_files = array();
foreach($files_dirs as $dir){
 if(is_dir($dir) AND preg_match('/\/\.$/',$dir)){
  $d = preg_replace('/\/\.$/','',$dir);
  $dirs_files[$d] = array();
  foreach($files_dirs as $file){
   if(is_file($file) AND $d == dirname($file)){
    $f = basename($file);
    $dirs_files[$d][] = $f;
   }
  }
 }
}
//print_r($dirs_files);

// sort dirs
ksort($dirs_files);

foreach($dirs_files as $dir => $files){
 $c = substr_count($dir,'/');
 echo  str_pad(' ',$c,' ', STR_PAD_LEFT)."$dir\n";
 // sort files
 asort($files);
 foreach($files as $file){
  echo str_pad(' ',$c,' ', STR_PAD_LEFT)."|_$file\n";
 }
}
echo '</pre></body></html>';

?>

Tom Chan · Answer 11 · 2016-01-26T20:25:09.847

This will print the full path of all files in the given directory, you can also pass other callback functions to recursiveDir.

function printFunc($path){
    echo $path."<br>";
}

function recursiveDir($path, $fileFunc, $dirFunc){
    $openDir = opendir($path);
    while (($file = readdir($openDir)) !== false) {
        $fullFilePath = realpath("$path/$file");
        if ($file[0] != ".") {
            if (is_file($fullFilePath)){
                if (is_callable($fileFunc)){
                    $fileFunc($fullFilePath);
                }
            } else {
                if (is_callable($dirFunc)){
                    $dirFunc($fullFilePath);
                }
                recursiveDir($fullFilePath, $fileFunc, $dirFunc);
            }
        }
    }
}

recursiveDir($dirToScan, 'printFunc', 'printFunc');

or : ``realpath("$path/$file");`` – user2226755 Jan 26 '16 at 18:48 — user2226755, Jan 26 '16 at 18:48

score 1 · Answer 12 · answered Aug 06 '18 at 14:21

This is a little modification of majicks answer.
I just changed the array structure returned by the function.

From:

array() => {
    [0] => "test/test.txt"
}

To:

array() => {
    'test/test.txt' => "test.txt"
}

/**
 * @param string $dir
 * @param bool   $recursive
 * @param string $basedir
 *
 * @return array
 */
function getFileListAsArray(string $dir, bool $recursive = true, string $basedir = ''): array {
    if ($dir == '') {
        return array();
    } else {
        $results = array();
        $subresults = array();
    }
    if (!is_dir($dir)) {
        $dir = dirname($dir);
    } // so a files path can be sent
    if ($basedir == '') {
        $basedir = realpath($dir) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
    }

    $files = scandir($dir);
    foreach ($files as $key => $value) {
        if (($value != '.') && ($value != '..')) {
            $path = realpath($dir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $value);
            if (is_dir($path)) { // do not combine with the next line or..
                if ($recursive) { // ..non-recursive list will include subdirs
                    $subdirresults = self::getFileListAsArray($path, $recursive, $basedir);
                    $results = array_merge($results, $subdirresults);
                }
            } else { // strip basedir and add to subarray to separate file list
                $subresults[str_replace($basedir, '', $path)] = $value;
            }
        }
    }
    // merge the subarray to give the list of files then subdirectory files
    if (count($subresults) > 0) {
        $results = array_merge($subresults, $results);
    }
    return $results;
}

Might help for those having the exact same expected results like me.

Deniz Porsuk · Answer 13 · 2018-11-07T14:43:08.393

To whom needs list files first than folders (with alphabetical older).

Can use following function. This is not self calling function. So you will have directory list, directory view, files list and folders list as seperated array also.

I spend two days for this and do not want someone will wast his time for this also, hope helps someone.

function dirlist($dir){
    if(!file_exists($dir)){ return $dir.' does not exists'; }
    $list = array('path' => $dir, 'dirview' => array(), 'dirlist' => array(), 'files' => array(), 'folders' => array());

    $dirs = array($dir);
    while(null !== ($dir = array_pop($dirs))){
        if($dh = opendir($dir)){
            while(false !== ($file = readdir($dh))){
                if($file == '.' || $file == '..') continue;
                $path = $dir.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$file;
                $list['dirlist_natural'][] = $path;
                if(is_dir($path)){
                    $list['dirview'][$dir]['folders'][] = $path;
                    // Bos klasorler while icerisine tekrar girmeyecektir. Klasorun oldugundan emin olalım.
                    if(!isset($list['dirview'][$path])){ $list['dirview'][$path] = array(); }
                    $dirs[] = $path;
                    //if($path == 'D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-content\upgrade'){ press($path); press($list['dirview']); die; }
                }
                else{
                    $list['dirview'][$dir]['files'][] = $path;
                }
            }
            closedir($dh);
        }
    }

    // if(!empty($dirlist['dirlist_natural']))  sort($dirlist['dirlist_natural'], SORT_LOCALE_STRING); // delete safe ama gerek kalmadı.

    if(!empty($list['dirview'])) ksort($list['dirview']);

    // Dosyaları dogru sıralama yaptırıyoruz. Deniz P. - info[at]netinial.com
    foreach($list['dirview'] as $path => $file){
        if(isset($file['files'])){
            $list['dirlist'][] = $path;
            $list['files'] = array_merge($list['files'], $file['files']);
            $list['dirlist'] = array_merge($list['dirlist'], $file['files']);
        }
        // Add empty folders to the list
        if(is_dir($path) && array_search($path, $list['dirlist']) === false){
            $list['dirlist'][] = $path;
        }
        if(isset($file['folders'])){
            $list['folders'] = array_merge($list['folders'], $file['folders']);
        }
    }

    //press(array_diff($list['dirlist_natural'], $list['dirlist'])); press($list['dirview']); die;

    return $list;
}

will output something like this.

[D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost] => Array
                (
                    [files] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\.htaccess
                            [1] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\index.php
                            [2] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\license.txt
                            [3] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\php.php
                            [4] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\readme.html
                            [5] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-activate.php
                            [6] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-blog-header.php
                            [7] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-comments-post.php
                            [8] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-config-sample.php
                            [9] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-config.php
                            [10] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-cron.php
                            [11] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-links-opml.php
                            [12] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-load.php
                            [13] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-login.php
                            [14] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-mail.php
                            [15] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-settings.php
                            [16] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-signup.php
                            [17] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-trackback.php
                            [18] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\xmlrpc.php
                        )

                    [folders] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\exclusiv_excluwlsql
                            [1] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-admin
                            [2] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-content
                            [3] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-includes
                        )

                )

dirview output

    [dirview] => Array
        (
            [0] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\.htaccess
            [1] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\index.php
            [2] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\license.txt
            [3] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\php.php
            [4] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\readme.html
            [5] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-activate.php
            [6] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-blog-header.php
            [7] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-comments-post.php
            [8] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-config-sample.php
            [9] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-config.php
            [10] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-cron.php
            [11] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-links-opml.php
            [12] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-load.php
            [13] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-login.php
            [14] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-mail.php
            [15] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-settings.php
            [16] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-signup.php
            [17] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\wp-trackback.php
            [18] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\xmlrpc.php
            [19] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost
            [20] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\exclusiv_excluwlsql\exclusiv_excluwl.sql
            [21] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\exclusiv_excluwlsql\exclusiv_excluwl.sql.zip
            [22] => D:\Xampp\htdocs\exclusiveyachtcharter.localhost\exclusiv_excluwlsql
)

mvorisek · Answer 14 · 2020-05-16T17:01:53.960

Ready for copy and paste function for common use cases, improved/extended version of one answer above:

function getDirContents(string $dir, int $onlyFiles = 0, string $excludeRegex = '~/\.git/~', int $maxDepth = -1): array {
    $results = [];
    $scanAll = scandir($dir);
    sort($scanAll);
    $scanDirs = []; $scanFiles = [];
    foreach($scanAll as $fName){
        if ($fName === '.' || $fName === '..') { continue; }
        $fPath = str_replace(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, '/', realpath($dir . '/' . $fName));
        if (strlen($excludeRegex) > 0 && preg_match($excludeRegex, $fPath . (is_dir($fPath) ? '/' : ''))) { continue; }
        if (is_dir($fPath)) {
            $scanDirs[] = $fPath;
        } elseif ($onlyFiles >= 0) {
            $scanFiles[] = $fPath;
        }
    }

    foreach ($scanDirs as $pDir) {
        if ($onlyFiles <= 0) {
            $results[] = $pDir;
        }
        if ($maxDepth !== 0) {
            foreach (getDirContents($pDir, $onlyFiles, $excludeRegex, $maxDepth - 1) as $p) {
                $results[] = $p;
            }
        }
    }
    foreach ($scanFiles as $p) {
        $results[] = $p;
    }

    return $results;
}

And if you need relative paths:

function updateKeysWithRelPath(array $paths, string $baseDir, bool $allowBaseDirPath = false): array {
    $results = [];
    $regex = '~^' . preg_quote(str_replace(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, '/', realpath($baseDir)), '~') . '(?:/|$)~s';
    $regex = preg_replace('~/~', '/(?:(?!\.\.?/)(?:(?!/).)+/\.\.(?:/|$))?(?:\.(?:/|$))*', $regex); // limited to only one "/xx/../" expr
    if (DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR === '\\') {
        $regex = preg_replace('~/~', '[/\\\\\\\\]', $regex) . 'i';
    }
    foreach ($paths as $p) {
        $rel = preg_replace($regex, '', $p, 1);
        if ($rel === $p) {
            throw new \Exception('Path relativize failed, path "' . $p . '" is not within basedir "' . $baseDir . '".');
        } elseif ($rel === '') {
            if (!$allowBaseDirPath) {
                throw new \Exception('Path relativize failed, basedir path "' . $p . '" not allowed.');
            } else {
                $results[$rel] = './';
            }
        } else {
            $results[$rel] = $p;
        }
    }
    return $results;
}

function getDirContentsWithRelKeys(string $dir, int $onlyFiles = 0, string $excludeRegex = '~/\.git/~', int $maxDepth = -1): array {
    return updateKeysWithRelPath(getDirContents($dir, $onlyFiles, $excludeRegex, $maxDepth), $dir);
}

This version solves/improves:

warnings from realpath when PHP open_basedir does not cover the .. directory.
does not use reference for the result array
allows to exclude directories and files
allows to list files/directories only
allows to limit the search depth
it always sort output with directories first (so directories can be removed/emptied in reverse order)
allows to get paths with relative keys
heavy optimized for hundred of thousands or even milions of files
write for more in the comments :)

Examples:

// list only `*.php` files and skip .git/ and the current file
$onlyPhpFilesExcludeRegex = '~/\.git/|(?<!/|\.php)$|^' . preg_quote(str_replace(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, '/', realpath(__FILE__)), '~') . '$~is';

$phpFiles = getDirContents(__DIR__, 1, $onlyPhpFilesExcludeRegex);
print_r($phpFiles);

// with relative keys
$phpFiles = getDirContentsWithRelKeys(__DIR__, 1, $onlyPhpFilesExcludeRegex);
print_r($phpFiles);

// with "include only" regex to include only .html and .txt files with "/*_mails/en/*.(html|txt)" path
'~/\.git/|^(?!.*/(|' . '[^/]+_mails/en/[^/]+\.(?:html|txt)' . ')$)~is'

Rain · Answer 15 · 2019-12-08T22:04:45.910

@A-312's solution may cause memory problems as it may create a huge array if /xampp/htdocs/WORK contains a lot of files and folders.

If you have PHP 7 then you can use Generators and optimize PHP's memory like this:

function getDirContents($dir) {
    $files = scandir($dir);
    foreach($files as $key => $value){

        $path = realpath($dir.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$value);
        if(!is_dir($path)) {
            yield $path;

        } else if($value != "." && $value != "..") {
           yield from getDirContents($path);
           yield $path;
        }
    }
}

foreach(getDirContents('/xampp/htdocs/WORK') as $value) {
    echo $value."\n";
}

yield from

Tom Headifen · Answer 16 · 2023-01-30T20:47:24.497

If you're using Laravel you can use the allFiles method on the Storage facade to recursively get all files as shown in the docs here: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/filesystem#get-all-files-within-a-directory.

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;

class TestClass {

    public function test() {
        // Gets all the files in the 'storage/app' directory.
        $files = Storage::allFiles(storage_path('app'))
    }

}

score 0 · Answer 17 · answered Mar 04 '16 at 16:30

Here is mine :

function recScan( $mainDir, $allData = array() ) 
{ 
// hide files 
$hidefiles = array( 
".", 
"..", 
".htaccess", 
".htpasswd", 
"index.php", 
"php.ini", 
"error_log" ) ; 

//start reading directory 
$dirContent = scandir( $mainDir ) ; 

foreach ( $dirContent as $key => $content ) 
{ 
$path = $mainDir . '/' . $content ; 

// if is readable / file 
if ( ! in_array( $content, $hidefiles ) ) 
{ 
if ( is_file( $path ) && is_readable( $path ) ) 
{ 
$allData[] = $path ; 
} 

// if is readable / directory 
// Beware ! recursive scan eats ressources ! 
else 
if ( is_dir( $path ) && is_readable( $path ) ) 
{ 
/*recursive*/ 
$allData = recScan( $path, $allData ) ; 
} 
} 
} 

return $allData ; 
}

score 0 · Answer 18 · answered Jul 19 '16 at 11:30

here I have example for that

List all the files and folders in a Directory csv(file) read with PHP recursive function

<?php

/** List all the files and folders in a Directory csv(file) read with PHP recursive function */
function getDirContents($dir, &$results = array()){
    $files = scandir($dir);

    foreach($files as $key => $value){
        $path = realpath($dir.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$value);
        if(!is_dir($path)) {
            $results[] = $path;
        } else if($value != "." && $value != "..") {
            getDirContents($path, $results);
            //$results[] = $path;
        }
    }

    return $results;
}





$files = getDirContents('/xampp/htdocs/medifree/lab');//here folder name where your folders and it's csvfile;


foreach($files as $file){
$csv_file =$file;
$foldername =  explode(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR,$file);
//using this get your folder name (explode your path);
print_r($foldername);

if (($handle = fopen($csv_file, "r")) !== FALSE) {

fgetcsv($handle); 
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
$num = count($data);
for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++) {
$col[$c] = $data[$c];
}
}
fclose($handle);
}

}

?>

http://myphpinformation.blogspot.in/2016/05/list-all-files-and-folders-in-directory-csv-file-read-with-php-recursive.html

Roman · Answer 19 · 2016-11-17T08:39:56.580

I improved with one check iteration the good code of Hors Sujet to avoid including folders in the result array:

function getDirContents($dir, &$results = array()){

    $files = scandir($dir);

    foreach($files as $key => $value){
        $path = realpath($dir.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$value);
        if(is_dir($path) == false) {
            $results[] = $path;
        }
        else if($value != "." && $value != "..") {
            getDirContents($path, $results);
            if(is_dir($path) == false) {
                $results[] = $path;
            }   
        }
    }
    return $results;

}

score 0 · Answer 20 · answered Nov 10 '21 at 21:15

I found this simple code: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24981012

 $Directory = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($path);
 $Iterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($Directory);
 //Filter to get only PDF, JPEG, JPG, GIF, TIF files.
 $Regex = new RegexIterator($Iterator, '/^.+(.jpe?g|.gif|.png|.tif|.pdf)$/i', RecursiveRegexIterator::GET_MATCH);

    foreach($Regex as $val => $Regex){
       echo "$val\n<br>";
    }

List all the files and folders in a Directory with PHP recursive function

Code:

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Your code :

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Ready for copy and paste function for common use cases, improved/extended version of one answer above:

And if you need relative paths:

This version solves/improves:

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