[PHP] Get Folder Name In A Location

[viruz99]

Hey Guys ,

Any idea how to get a name of a folder via php .

e.g : /...../location/folderx

i don't have the name of the folderx ,

how can i get the folder name via php ?

* There is only 1 folder in that location

viruz99 Reviewed by viruz99 on 7th Jan 2012. [PHP] Get Folder Name In A Location Hey Guys , Any idea how to get a name of a folder via php . e.g : /...../location/folderx i don't have the name of the folderx , how can i get the folder name via php ? Rating: 5

[l0calh0st]

So you want to return all folder names in:
/...../location/

?

[t3od0r]

if you have the php file in folderx you can use http://php.net/getcwd

[viruz99]

nope , each time i run the script , a new folderx is created in that location with different name .
need a quick php code to retrieve its name .

@ l0calhost , yep + there is only 1 folder

$folderx = "foldername";

[CJ]

IF U WANT current DIR then getcwd() would do ur work or else if u want to search in certain dir use something like
$handler = opendir("/home/wheretosearch/");
while ($file = readdir($handler))
{
echo $file;
}

[soft2050]

Ok, se we have a folder name: "unknown" in the folder "folder" from relative path

The process is somewhat similar to opendir but i prefer to use glob() for this purpose : http://php.net/manual/en/function.glob.php
Use is_dir function to check whether the specified resource is a directory: http://php.net/manual/en/function.is-dir.php

Check out the below code, i have also commented it a little:

<?php

$folder = array(); // Creates a array for use later

foreach (glob("folder/*") as $thefolder) { // Use for each to go through and get each folder & file in the given directory
    If (is_dir($thefolder)) { // We only want to get folders so we are making sure that we are adding a directory and not a file.
        $folder[] = $thefolder; // Adds the file to the array created
    }
}

echo $folder[0]; // 0 for 1st dir, 1 for 2nd and so on...

?>

I prefer to use glob because we can specify the syntax to search for all filenames

[viruz99]

thx soft2050 but i'm getting this error :

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FOREACH on line

foreach (glob("$location\*") as $thefolder) {

* tried the direct location as well path/folder/ instead of $location

@ Humour - its working tho i'm getting "...foldername"

[soft2050]

I was not using any IDE, was writing in notepad++ so came out with a error

I forgot to add ; at the end on line 3
Between, i have already edited before your reply but you probably might wont have saw it.

[viruz99]

Edit - working tho its giving the full location

e.g : /..../folder/foldername

[soft2050]

I have just tried the code and it does work here. The error is because the glob didn't find any file/folder in that location and couldn't add anything to array

Try using realpath() function to check whether you are on the right path: http://php.net/manual/en/function.realpath.php

Theres some problem with the location you are trying to get folder from

Edit:
Is this real what you are using in your code:

$location = "/....../folder/"; 

If yes, then you can't add so much dots. Only ./ or ../

You have to use something like this for it then: /../../../