PHP: Using scandir(), folders are treated as files - php

Question

Using PHP 5.3.3 (stable) on Linux CentOS 5.5.
Here's my folder structure:
www/myFolder/
www/myFolder/testFolder/
www/myFolder/testFile.txt
Using scandir() against the "myFolder" folder I get the following results:
.
..
testFolder
testFile.txt
I'm trying to filter out the folders from the results and only return files:
$scan = scandir('myFolder');
foreach($scan as $file)
{
if (!is_dir($file))
{
echo $file.'\n';
}
}
The expected results are:
testFile.txt
However I'm actually seeing:
testFile.txt
testFolder
Can anyone tell me what's going wrong here please?

Answer 1

You need to change directory or append it to your test. is_dir returns false when the file doesn't exist.
$scan = scandir('myFolder');
foreach($scan as $file)
{
if (!is_dir("myFolder/$file"))
{
echo $file.'\n';
}
}
That should do the right thing

Answer 2

Doesn't is_dir() take a file as a parameter?
$scan = scandir('myFolder');
foreach($scan as $file)
{
if (!is_dir($file))
{
echo $file.'\n';
}
}

Answer 3

Already told you the answer here: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52471

Answer 4

If you were displaying errors, you'd see why this isn't working:
Warning: Wrong parameter count for is_dir() in testFile.php on line 16
Now try passing $file to is_dir()
$scan = scandir('myFolder');
foreach($scan as $file)
{
if (!is_dir($file))
{
echo $file.'\n';
}
}

Answer 5

If anyone who comes here is interested in saving the output to an array, here's a fast way of doing that (modified to be more efficient):
$dirPath = 'dashboard';
$dir = scandir($dirPath);
foreach($dir as $index => &$item)
{
if(is_dir($dirPath. '/' . $item))
{
unset($dir[$index]);
}
}
$dir = array_values($dir);