How to List A Directory Contents Using PHP (Recursive)

To list contents of a directory is simple in PHP, just use three PHP directory functions, opendir,  readdir and is_dir.

The code:

<?php
function listDirectory($path)
{
    $handle = @opendir($path);

    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
        if ($file == '.' || $file == '..') continue;

        if ( is_dir("$path/$file")) {
            echo "$path/$file\n";
            listDirectory("$path/$file");
        } else {
            echo "$path/$file\n";
        }
    }

    closedir($handle);
}

listDirectory("tutorials");
?>

Here’s the result:

To start list contents, first open the directory handle using opendir then loop to read the entire contents using readdir. Check if content is a directory or a file using is_dir, if a directory,  then call function listDirectory to read it’s content (recursive).TV6CA39U8TTG

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