glob

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)

glob -- Find pathnames matching a pattern

Description

array glob ( string pattern [, int flags] )

The glob() function searches for all the pathnames matching pattern according to the rules used by the libc glob() function, which is similar to the rules used by common shells. No tilde expansion or parameter substitution is done.

Returns an array containing the matched files/directories, an empty array if no file matched or FALSE on error.

Valid flags:

Eksempel 1. Convenient way how glob() can replace opendir() and friends.

<?php
foreach (glob("*.txt") as $filename) {
    echo
"$filename size " . filesize($filename) . "\n";
}
?>

Ovenstående eksempel vil udskrive noget der ligner:

funclist.txt size 44686
funcsummary.txt size 267625
quickref.txt size 137820

Bemærk: Denne funktion vil ikke virke på fjernfiler da filen som skal undersøges skal være tilgængelig på servers filsystem.

Bemærk: This function isn't available on some systems (e.g. old Sun OS).

See also opendir(), readdir(), closedir(), and fnmatch().