something like grep

[Jeff]

I'd like to open a directory and spider all the subdirectories and files.

What is the php term for doing this?

Seems like it should be here:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php

Perhaps I'm just having a bad day!

Jeff

[petersprc]

Hi,

You can use the opendir and readdir functions to traverse a directory
tree. There's an example in the doc at php.net/opendir.

If you want to do a text search within a directory tree, you can use
the egrep shell command with the -r (recursive) option on most
linuxes.

Regards,

John Peters

On Jul 29, 4:47 pm, Jeff <jeff@spam_me_not.comwrote:

I'd like to open a directory and spider all the subdirectories and files.

What is the php term for doing this?

Seems like it should be here:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php

Perhaps I'm just having a bad day!

Jeff

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(petersprc)

>You can use the opendir and readdir functions to traverse a directory
tree. There's an example in the doc at php.net/opendir.

Or use the various iterators of the SPL. They make it quite convenient
to loop through a directory and all that's beneath it if necessary.

Micha

[Jeff]

Michael Fesser wrote:

.oO(petersprc)

>You can use the opendir and readdir functions to traverse a directory
tree. There's an example in the doc at php.net/opendir.

Or use the various iterators of the SPL. They make it quite convenient
to loop through a directory and all that's beneath it if necessary.

Having just now looked at this, I can see how this might work (It
seems to have some of the file system operators I'm familiar with). But
the documentation is poor and I'm not sure where I would even start.

Do you have any sample code for this?

Recursion and readdir is it's own can of worms, but at least I
understand it!

Jeff

>
Micha

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(Jeff)

>Michael Fesser wrote:

>.oO(petersprc)

>>You can use the opendir and readdir functions to traverse a directory
tree. There's an example in the doc at php.net/opendir.

Or use the various iterators of the SPL. They make it quite convenient
to loop through a directory and all that's beneath it if necessary.

Having just now looked at this, I can see how this might work (It
seems to have some of the file system operators I'm familiar with). But
the documentation is poor and I'm not sure where I would even start.

Do you have any sample code for this?

To conveniently loop through an entire directory tree $path you would
need two iterators, like this:

$path = '/foo/bar/whatever';
$di = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($path);
foreach (new RecursiveIteratorIterator($di) as $item) {
if ($item->isFile()) {
...
}
}

Of course this doesn't pay attention to the actual directory or nesting
level, it simply loops through _all_ found entries and sub entries.

See <http://www.php.net/~helly/php/ext/spl/classSplFileInfo.htmlfor
the various methods you can call on such file objects (just scroll down
a bit to "Public Member Functions").

Micha

[Jeff]

Michael Fesser wrote:

.oO(Jeff)

>Michael Fesser wrote:

>>.oO(petersprc)

You can use the opendir and readdir functions to traverse a directory
tree. There's an example in the doc at php.net/opendir.
Or use the various iterators of the SPL. They make it quite convenient
to loop through a directory and all that's beneath it if necessary.

Having just now looked at this, I can see how this might work (It
seems to have some of the file system operators I'm familiar with). But
the documentation is poor and I'm not sure where I would even start.

Do you have any sample code for this?

To conveniently loop through an entire directory tree $path you would
need two iterators, like this:

$path = '/foo/bar/whatever';
$di = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($path);
foreach (new RecursiveIteratorIterator($di) as $item) {
if ($item->isFile()) {
...
}
}

Thanks,

I see that this gives an alphabetically sorted list.
/a.html
/a/a.html
/ab.html
/b.html

I find it fascinating that can be done, but not useful at the moment.

Can I look at the root first and then recurse through the directories?
Or is this easier with recursive readdir?

I imagine this is possible, but I haven't a clue how to go about that.
I take it this is documentation for something that has no other
documentation?

Jeff

>
Of course this doesn't pay attention to the actual directory or nesting
level, it simply loops through _all_ found entries and sub entries.

See <http://www.php.net/~helly/php/ext/spl/classSplFileInfo.htmlfor
the various methods you can call on such file objects (just scroll down
a bit to "Public Member Functions").

Micha