Listing all the folders subfolders and files in a directory using php

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Please give me a solution for listing all the folders subfolders files in a directory using php  My folder structure is like this   Main Dir  Dir1   SubDir1    File1    File2   SubDir2    File3    File4  Dir2   SubDir3    File5    File6   SubDir4    File7    File8   I want to get the list of all the files inside each folder   Is there any shell script command in php

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scandir   http   php net manual en function scandir php

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function listFolderFiles  dir        ffs   scandir  dir        unset  ffs array search       ffs  true         unset  ffs array search        ffs  true             prevent empty ordered elements     if  count  ffs   lt  1          return       echo   lt ol gt        foreach  ffs as  ff           echo   lt li gt    ff          if is dir  dir      ff   listFolderFiles  dir      ff           echo   lt  li gt              echo   lt  ol gt       listFolderFiles  Main Dir

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define   PATH     SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT     dirname   SERVER  PHP SELF       dir   new DirectoryIterator PATH   echo   lt ul gt    foreach   dir as  fileinfo           if    fileinfo- gt isDot             echo   lt li gt  lt a href     fileinfo- gt getFilename      target   blank  gt    fileinfo- gt getFilename     lt  a gt  lt  li gt             echo   lt  li gt            echo   lt  ul gt

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This post is for Shef the one who posted the correct answer   It s the only way I can think of showing him how much I appreciate his code and what I have done with it    lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt head gt  lt title gt Displays Folder Contents lt  title gt  lt  head gt   lt  php  function frmtFolder  Entity    echo   lt li style  font-weight bold color black list-style-type none  gt      Entity     function frmtFile  dEntry   fEntry   echo   lt li style  list-style-type square  gt       lt a href       dEntry          fEntry       gt       fEntry      lt  a gt       function listFolderFiles  dir     ffs   scandir  dir    unset  ffs array search       ffs  true     unset  ffs array search        ffs  true     unset  ffs array search  index html    ffs  true        prevent empty ordered elements if  count  ffs   lt  1   return   echo   lt ul gt    foreach   ffs as  ff        if  is dir  dir          ff          frmtFolder  dir         else        frmtFile  dir   ff             if  is dir  dir          ff             listFolderFiles  dir          ff             echo   lt  li gt      echo   lt  ul gt      listFolderFiles  Folder To List Here      I plan on expanding the frmtFile to use audio and videos tags in  the future

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This code lists all directories and files in sorted order in a tree view  It s a site map generator with hyper-links to all the site resources  The full web page source is here  You ll need to change the path on the ninth line from the end    lt  php  pathLen   0   function prePad  level       ss          for   ii   0    ii  lt   level    ii             ss    ss      amp nbsp  amp nbsp           return  ss     function myScanDir  dir   level   rootLen      global  pathLen     if   handle   opendir  dir           allFiles   array         while  false       entry   readdir  handle            if   entry         amp  amp   entry                    if  is dir  dir          entry                        allFiles      D       dir          entry                    else                      allFiles      F       dir          entry                              closedir  handle        natsort  allFiles        foreach  allFiles as  value               displayName   substr  value   rootLen   4          fileName      substr  value  3          linkName      str replace        20   substr  value   pathLen   3          if  is dir  fileName             echo prePad  level     linkName     lt br gt  n           myScanDir  fileName   level   1  strlen  fileName            else           echo prePad  level      lt a href        linkName       style   text-decoration none    gt      displayName     lt  a gt  lt br gt  n                          gt  lt  DOCTYPE HTML gt   lt html lang  en  gt   lt head gt     lt meta charset  UTF-8  gt     lt title gt Site Map lt  title gt   lt  head gt    lt body gt   lt h1 gt Site Map lt  h1 gt   lt p style  font-family  Courier New   Courier  monospace  font-size small   gt   lt  php    root     home someuser www website com public       pathLen   strlen  root      myScanDir  root  0  strlen  root      gt   lt  p gt   lt  body gt    lt  html gt

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Late to the show  but to build off of the accepted answer     If you want to have all the files and directories in as array  that can be prettied-up nicely with JSON stringify in javascript   you can modify the function to   function listFolderFiles  dir          arr   array         ffs   scandir  dir        foreach  ffs as  ff            if  ff         amp  amp   ff                         arr  ff    array                if is dir  dir      ff                      arr  ff    listFolderFiles  dir      ff                                      return  arr      For the Newbies     To use the aforementioned JSON stringify  your JS jQuery would be something like   var ajax     ajax       method   POST       data   list dirs  true     done function msg           pre   html           FILE LAYOUT lt br  gt                  JSON stringify JSON parse msg   null  4                 This is assuming you have a  lt pre gt  element in your HTML somewhere  Any flavour of AJAX will do  but I figure most people are using something similar to the jQuery above   And the accompanying PHP   if isset   POST  list dirs           echo json encode listFolderFiles  rootPath        exit        where you already have listFolderFiles from before    In my case  I ve set my  rootPath to the root directory of the site      rootPath   if  isset  rootPath          rootPath     SERVER  DOCUMENT ROOT        The end result is something like          some file 1487 smthng            some file 8752 smthng            CSS               some file 3615 smthng                 some file 8151 smthng                 some file 7571 smthng                 some file 5641 smthng                 some file 7305 smthng                 some file 9527 smthng                  IMAGES               some file 4515 smthng                 some file 1335 smthng                 some file 1819 smthng                 some file 9188 smthng                 some file 4760 smthng                 some file 7347 smthng                  JSScripts               some file 6449 smthng                 some file 7864 smthng                 some file 3899 smthng                 google-code-prettify                    some file 2090 smthng                      some file 5169 smthng                      some file 3426 smthng                      some file 8208 smthng                      some file 7581 smthng                      some file 4618 smthng                            some file 3883 smthng                 some file 3713 smthng            and so on      Note  Yours will not look exactly like this - I ve modified JSON stringify to display tabs  vertical pipes   align all keyed values  remove quotes off of keys  and a couple other things  I will modify this answer with a link if I ever get to uploading it  or get enough interest

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Here is A simple function with scandir amp  array filter that do the job  filter   needed files using regex  I removed      and hidden files like  htaccess  you can also customise output using  lt ul gt  and colors and also customise errors in case no scan or empty dirs     function getAllContentOfLocation  loc            scandir   scandir  loc         scandir   array filter  scandir  function  element            return  preg match           element                 if empty  scandir   echo   lt li style  color red  gt Empty Dir lt  li gt         foreach  scandir as  file             baseLink    loc   DIRECTORY SEPARATOR    file           echo   lt ol gt            if is dir  baseLink                         echo   lt li style  font-weight bold color blue  gt    file   lt  li gt                getAllContentOfLocation  baseLink             else              echo   lt li gt    file   lt  li gt                      echo   lt  ol gt              Call function and set location that you want to scan  getAllContentOfLocation     app

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You can also try this    lt  php function listdirs  dir        static  alldirs   array         dirs   glob  dir         GLOB ONLYDIR       if  count  dirs   gt  0            foreach   dirs as  d   alldirs      d            foreach   dirs as  dir  listdirs  dir       return  alldirs      directory list   listdirs  xampp    print r  directory list     gt

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If you re looking for a recursive directory listing solutions and arrange them in a multidimensional array  Use below code    lt  php        Function for recursive directory file list search as an array         param mixed  dir Main Directory Path         return array     function listFolderFiles  dir         fileInfo       scandir  dir        allFileLists            foreach   fileInfo as  folder            if   folder          amp  amp   folder                         if  is dir  dir   DIRECTORY SEPARATOR    folder      true                     allFileLists  folder    listFolderFiles  dir   DIRECTORY SEPARATOR    folder                 else                    allFileLists  folder     folder                                     return  allFileLists     end listFolderFiles      dir   listFolderFiles  your searching directory path ex -F  xampp htdocs abc    echo   lt pre gt    print r  dir   echo   lt  pre gt      gt

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I was looking for a similar function to this  I needed directories as keys and subdirectories as arrays and files to just be placed as values  I used the following code          Return an array of files found within a specified directory      param  string  dir   A valid directory  If a path  with a file at the end                           is passed  then the file is trimmed from the directory      param  string  regex Optional  If passed  all file names will be checked                          against the expression  and only those that match will                          be returned                           A RegEx can be just a string  where a     will be                          prefixed and a   i  will be suffixed  Alternatively                           a string could be a valid RegEx string      return array         An array of all files from that directory  If regex is                          set  then this will be an array of any matching files      function get files in dir string  dir   regex   null         dir   is dir  dir     dir   dirname  dir          A RegEx to check whether a RegEx is a valid RegEx  D      pass   preg match           a-z            a-z    a-z    i    regex   matches           Any non-regex string will be caught here      if  isset  regex   amp  amp    pass               regex       addslashes  regex    i            regex      regex i                 A valid regex delimiter with different delimiters will be caught here      if   empty  matches   amp  amp   matches 1       matches 2              regex     matches 1     i      Append first delimiter and i flag            try            files   scandir  dir         catch  Exception  ex             files                           files   array slice  files  2      Remove     and           files   array reduce  files  function  carry   item  use   regex            if    empty  regex   amp  amp  preg match  regex   item      empty  regex                 array push  carry   item                      return  carry                   return  files     function str finish  value   cap         quoted   preg quote  cap             return preg replace         quoted      u        value   cap     function get directory tree  dir         fs   get files in dir  dir        files   array         foreach   fs as  k   gt   f            if  is dir str finish  dir        f                  fs  f    get directory tree str finish  dir        f             else                files      f                    unset  fs  k                 fs   array merge  fs   files        return  fs      There s a lot to take in   The first function get files in dir function was created so that I could get all files and folders in a directory based on a regular expression  I use it here because it has some error checking to make sure a directory is converted into an array   Next  we have a simple function that just adds a forward slash to the end of a string if there isn t one there already   Finally  we have the get directory tree function which will iterate through all the folders and sub folders and create an associative array where the folder names are the keys and files are the values  unless the folder has sub folders

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function GetDir  dir        if  is dir  dir             if   kami   opendir  dir                 while   file   readdir  kami                     if   file         amp  amp   file                                if  is dir  dir    file                             echo  dir    file                             since it is a directory we recurse it                          GetDir  dir    file                               else                           echo  dir    file                                                                          closedir  kami

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A very simple way to show folder structure makes use of RecursiveTreeIterator class  PHP 5    5 3 0  PHP 7  and generates an ASCII graphic tree    it   new RecursiveTreeIterator new RecursiveDirectoryIterator   path to dir   RecursiveDirectoryIterator  SKIP DOTS    foreach  it as  path      echo  path   lt br gt        http   php net manual en class recursivetreeiterator php  There is also some control over the ASCII representation of the tree by changing the prefixes using RecursiveTreeIterator  setPrefixPart  for example  it- gt setPrefixPart RecursiveTreeIterator  PREFIX LEFT

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I m really fond of SPL Library  they offer iterator s  including RecursiveDirectoryIterator

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https   3v4l org VsQLb Example Here function listdirs  dir        static  alldirs   array         dirs   glob  dir         GLOB ONLYDIR       if  count  dirs   gt  0            foreach   dirs as  d   alldirs      d            foreach   dirs as  dir  listdirs  dir       return  alldirs

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The precedents answers didn t meet my needs   If you want all files and dirs in one flat array  you can use this function  found here        Does not support flag GLOB BRACE         function glob recursive  pattern   flags   0         files   glob  pattern   flags       foreach  glob dirname  pattern        GLOB ONLYDIR GLOB NOSORT  as  dir             files   array merge  files  glob recursive  dir     basename  pattern    flags              return  files      In my case      paths   glob recursive os path join  base path   current directory           returns me an array like this         home dir     home dir image png     home dir subdir     home dir subdir file php       You can also use dynamic path generation     paths   glob recursive os path join  base path   directory           With this function     function os path join     parts      return preg replace     DIRECTORY SEPARATOR       DIRECTORY SEPARATOR  implode DIRECTORY SEPARATOR  array filter  parts         If you wan get only directories you can use     paths   glob recursive os path join  base path   current directory          subdirs   array filter  paths  function  path        return is dir  path

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It will use to make menu bar in directory format    pathLen   0   function prePad  level       ss          for   ii   0    ii  lt   level    ii               ss    ss      amp nbsp  amp nbsp               return  ss         function myScanDir  dir   level   rootLen          global  pathLen       if   handle   opendir  dir             allFiles   array           while  false       entry   readdir  handle              if   entry         amp  amp   entry                      if  is dir  dir          entry                            allFiles      D       dir          entry                        else                          allFiles      F       dir          entry                                      closedir  handle          natsort  allFiles          foreach  allFiles as  value                   displayName   substr  value   rootLen   4            fileName      substr  value  3            linkName      str replace           substr  value   pathLen   3              if  is dir  fileName                             echo   lt li  gt  lt a class  dropdown  gt  lt span gt      displayName                         lt  span gt  lt  a gt  lt ul gt               myScanDir  fileName   level   1  strlen  fileName                echo   lt  ul gt  lt  li gt                 else          newstring   substr  displayName  -3           if  newstring     PDF      newstring     pdf               echo   lt li  gt  lt a href        linkName       style   text-decoration none    gt      displayName     lt  a gt  lt  li gt                  t          if  level    0                      if  level  lt   t                       r   int  t  - int  level           for  i 0  i lt  r  i                          echo   lt  ul gt  lt  li gt                                                    t    level                                           gt                                            lt li style  color   ffffff  gt                                                    lt  php                                                           ListFolder  D  PDF          root    D  PDF       pathLen   strlen  root        myScanDir  root  0  strlen  root            gt                                             lt  li gt

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In case you want to use directoryIterator  Following function is a re-implementation of  Shef answer with directoryIterator  function listFolderFiles  dir        echo   lt ol gt        foreach  new DirectoryIterator  dir  as  fileInfo            if    fileInfo- gt isDot                  echo   lt li gt      fileInfo- gt getFilename                if   fileInfo- gt isDir                      listFolderFiles  fileInfo- gt getPathname                               echo   lt  li gt                        echo   lt  ol gt      listFolderFiles  Main Dir

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Have a look at glob   or the recursive directory iterator

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