In PHP to have an automatic listing of files and folders in a directory, you can use code below. To use this effectively and regularly you should put this code in a file index.php in directory, so whenever someone will access that directory through browser, all the files and folders will be listed with links.
<?php
// This script list name of all the subdirectories and files in a directory
if ($handle = opendir('.')) {
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
$thelist .= ' '.$file.'';
}
}
closedir($handle);
}
?>
This is the list of files in this directory:
Or you can write in the code in this manner also.
<?php
// Define the full path to your folder from root
$path = ".";
// Open the folder
$dir_handle = @opendir($path) or die("Unable to open $path");
// Loop through the files
while ($file = readdir($dir_handle)) {
if ($file == "." || $file == ".." || $file == "index.php" )
continue;
echo "$file";
} // Close
closedir($dir_handle);
?>
But if you wish to list both files and directories separately, following code can be used, this separately print directories and files.
<?php
// get array of all files and directories in the current directory (it is sorted alphabetically by default)
$dir_entries = scandir(dirname(__FILE__)); // for PHP 5.3+, use __DIR__ instead of dirname(__FILE__)
// split the array of files and directories into two arrays, one containing files and the other directories
$dir_files = array();
$dir_directories = array();
foreach($dir_entries as $dir_entry) {
if(is_dir($dir_entry)) {
array_push($dir_directories, $dir_entry);
} else {
array_push($dir_files, $dir_entry);
}
}
// print directories
foreach($dir_directories as $dir_directory) {
// don't print current and parent directories
if($dir_directory == '.' or $dir_directory == '..') {
continue;
}
echo "" . htmlspecialchars($dir_directory) . "\n";
}
// print files
foreach($dir_files as $dir_file) {
echo "" . htmlspecialchars($dir_file) . "\n";
}
?>
