PHP scandir and relative path - php

Question

I've tried all the solutions I read on here but can't seem to get this to work.
I'm trying to call scandir in this file:
https://www.example.com/cms/uploader/index.php
to list all the files and directories in this folder:
https://www.example.com/uploads/
I don't want to hardcode the example.com part because this will be different depending on the site. I've tried many combinations of: dirname(FILE), DIR, $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'], and $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], etc. I either get a "failed to open dir, not implemented in..." error or nothing displays at all. Here is the code I'm using:
$directory = __DIR__ . '/../../uploads';
$filelist = "";
$dircont = scandir($directory);
foreach($dircont AS $item)
if(is_file($item) && $item[0]!='.')
$filelist .= ''.$item.''."<br />\n";
echo $filelist;
What's the proper way to do this?

Answer 1

The $directory variable is set wrong. If you want to go 2 directories up use dirname() like this:
$directory = dirname(__DIR__,2) . '/uploads';
$filelist = "";
$dircont = scandir($directory);
foreach($dircont AS $item) {
if(is_file($item) && $item[0]!='.')
$filelist .= ''.$item.''."<br />\n";
}
echo $filelist;
You can read more about scandir there is a section on how to use it with urls if allow_url_fopen is enabled but this is mainly in local/development environment.

Answer 2

Sorry, i am not able to write a comment to ask you a question( low reputation ).
As far as i understand from your explanation, you wanted to add possible folder names to make your probe in a way will work automatically.
If yes, then i would do such piece of code like this;
$website = 'http://localhost/';
$folders = array('uploads','files', 'uploads/files');
$filelist = "";
foreach ($folders as $kinky)
$dircont = scandir($website.$kinky);
foreach ($dircont AS $item)
if (is_file($item) && $item[0] != '.')
$filelist .= '' . $item . '' . "<br />\n";
echo $filelist;
Hope it helps :)