PHP recursive directory path

directory, path, php, recursion

Solution

Try to use RecursiveIteratorIterator in combination with RecursiveDirectoryIterator

$path = realpath('/path/you/want/to/search/in');

$objects = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(
               new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($path), 
               RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST);

foreach($objects as $name => $object){
    if($object->getFilename() === 'work.txt') {
        echo $object->getPathname();
    }
}

Additional reading:

- http://www.phpro.org/tutorials/Introduction-to-SPL.html

Problem

i have this function to return the `full directory tree`: ``` function getDirectory( $path = '.', $level = 0 ){ $ignore = array( 'cgi-bin', '.', '..' ); // Directories to ignore when listing output. Many hosts // will deny PHP access to the cgi-bin. $dh = @opendir( $path ); // Open the directory to the handle $dh while( false !== ( $file = readdir( $dh ) ) ){ // Loop through the directory if( !in_array( $file, $ignore ) ){ // Check that this file is not to be ignored $spaces = str_repeat( '&nbsp;', ( $level * 4 ) ); // Just to add spacing to the list, to better // show the directory tree. if( is_dir( "$path/$file" ) ){ // Its a directory, so we need to keep reading down... echo "<strong>$spaces $file</strong><br />"; getDirectory( "$path/$file", ($level+1) ); // Re-call this same function but on a new directory. // this is what makes function recursive. } else { echo "$spaces $file<br />"; // Just print out the filename } } } closedir( $dh ); // Close the directory handle ``` } but what i want to do is to search for a file/folder and return it's path, how can i do that? do you have such a function or can you give me some tips on how to do this?

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