Posted by Marek Kilimajer on 06/26/05 00:51

Marcos Mendonça wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm using PHP 4.3.9, under Windows XP with Apache.
>
> I have the following directory structure on a given app, i'm working on.
>
> photos/
> > folder1
> > folder2
> > folder3
> > ... and so on
>
> I'm trying the following code to make a list of folder under photos:
>
> $d = dir('photos/');
>
> while (false !== ($entry = $d->read())) {
> if (is_dir($entry) && $entry != '.' && $entry != '..')
> echo $entry . "<br />";
> }
>
> For some strange reason, that echoes nothing. is_dir is returning
> false on every folder (dir)
> under photos, except for '.' and '..' dirs. Can someone explain this?

is_dir() is checking for 'folder1', 'folder2' etc. You want it to check
'photos/folder1', 'photos/folder2'....

Use:
if (is_dir('photos/' . $entry) ....

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