glob

Find pathnames matching a pattern (PHP 4 >= 4.3.0)
array glob ( string pattern [, int flags] )

The glob() function searches for all the pathnames matching pattern according to the rules used by the shell. No tilde expansion or parameter substitution is done.

Returns an array containing the matched files/directories or FALSE on error.

Valid flags:

  • GLOB_MARK - Adds a slash to each item returned
  • GLOB_NOSORT - Return files as they appear in the directory (no sorting)
  • GLOB_NOCHECK - Return the search pattern if no files matching it were found
  • GLOB_NOESCAPE - Backslashes do not quote metacharacters
  • GLOB_BRACE - Expands {a,b,c} to match 'a', 'b', or 'c'
  • GLOB_ONLYDIR - Return only directory entries which match the pattern
Note:

Before PHP 4.3.3 GLOB_ONLYDIR was not available on Windows and other systems not using the GNU C library.

Example 327. Convenient way how glob() can replace opendir() and friends.

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

/* Output will look something like:

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

*/
?>
Note:

This function will not work on remote files as the file to be examined must be accessible via the servers filesystem.

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

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