Hidden directory

[Botan Guner]

Hi everyone,

I'm running php on win2000 server and iis. I have a script that builds
the directory sturcture of a directory or a drive. My problem is that i
want to find that which directories are hidden. I have looked stat()
function but it seems that it does not return a value for being hidden
or not.

Thanks for any help,

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Botan Guner wrote:

I'm running php on win2000 server and iis. I have a script that builds
the directory sturcture of a directory or a drive. My problem is that
i want to find that which directories are hidden. I have looked stat()
function but it seems that it does not return a value for being hidden
or not.

The simplest way of doing this would be to use shell_exec (or exec/system)
to invoke the command interpreter's dir command with some flags:

$hidden = explode("\n", `dir /AH /B`);

Note that the backtics are shortcuts for the shell_exec function.
JW

[Botan Guner]

Thanks, that solved my problem, but i can't keep thinking how would it
be possible if the shell_exec is disabled from the ini file.
Janwillem Borleffs wrote:

Botan Guner wrote:

I'm running php on win2000 server and iis. I have a script that builds
the directory sturcture of a directory or a drive. My problem is that
i want to find that which directories are hidden. I have looked stat()
function but it seems that it does not return a value for being hidden
or not.

The simplest way of doing this would be to use shell_exec (or exec/system)
to invoke the command interpreter's dir command with some flags:

$hidden = explode("\n", `dir /AH /B`);

Note that the backtics are shortcuts for the shell_exec function.
JW

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Botan Guner wrote:

Thanks, that solved my problem, but i can't keep thinking how would it
be possible if the shell_exec is disabled from the ini file.

An alternative would be to use the COM extension (http://www.php.net/com).

Example:

<?php
$fso = new COM("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
or die("Could not create Scripting.FileSystemObject");

$dir = opendir('.');
while ($file = readdir($dir)) {
if ($file == '.' || $file == '..') {
continue;
}
if (is_dir($file)) {
$f = $fso->GetFolder(realpath($file));
} else {
$f = $fso->GetFile(realpath($file));
}
print $file;
if ($f->Attributes & 2) {
print ' [HIDDEN]';
}
print "\n";
}
closedir($dir);

?>
JW