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willdanceforfun
willdanceforfun

Reputation: 11240

Why DirectoryIterator access this path folder I define, but instead accessing the parent?

I am running a homebrew install of php and nginx. My root web directory is /var/www. Inside that I have a folder with a bunch of files:

rmp:~ rmp$ cd /var/www/somefolder
rmp:somefolder rmp$ ls
//lists all the files

I made a script to loop through the directory and do something with the files:

$dir = new DirectoryIterator(dirname('/var/www/somefolder/'));

foreach ($dir as $fileinfo) {
    if (!$fileinfo->isDot()) {
        var_dump($fileinfo->getFilename());
    }
}

Instead of getting all the filenames in somefolder/ folder, I'm getting a list of files in /var/www

I thought that it's strange, so I tried a relative path instead, since my script is in a folder paralell to somefolder I tried path:

$dir = new DirectoryIterator(dirname('../somefolder/'));

Again, contents of /var/www

The problem seems elementary. Making me feel really stupid.

I thought maybe the server thinks I'm in a different directory? I tried echo getcwd() and got /private/var/www

So I also tried everything with absolutes with private prepended as well. Still the same. What have I missed?

Here's the weird thing, if I make the path:

/var/www/somefolder/somefolder

Then it works!? It shouldn't. Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 301

Answers (1)

akinzhou
akinzhou

Reputation: 51

because dirname('/var/www/somefolder/') result is '/var/www',you can test it.

Upvotes: 1

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