What is better than PHP Glob?

Question

Is there a faster way to display a list of files by reading the directory than glob? This works great for a few files but is very slow to display when there is alot of files in a directory?

<ul>
        <?php
            foreach (glob("directory/sub-directory/*.pdf") as $filename) {
            $shortname = basename($filename);
            echo "<LI><span class=file><a href=http://www.mysite.com/directory/sub-directory/viewer.php?doc=$shortname>$shortname</a></span></li>\n";
            }
        ?>
</ul>

Why do you think this code is slow? Are you sure it's not a browser that renders it not fast? How do you measure it? — zerkms, Sep 25 '12 at 12:43
The answer to your question: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2763321/795876 — fsenart, Sep 25 '12 at 12:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 25 '12 at 12:47

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opendir() is a little bit faster I guess. How many files do you consider a lot? You might want to think about fetching only chunks of the files in the directory, loading the next chunk whenever the user scrolls to the bottom or the like.

answered Sep 25 '12 at 12:47

Marco Kerwitz

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