A PHP snippet that reads the files of a folder and returns the filename as an array

php-read-dir

<?php
//vvvvvvvvvv *INCLUDE_FUNCTIONS vvvvvvvvvv
/* phpReadDir v0.1
 * This function gets the contents of a directory.
 * It returns an array ($contentsArr) of strings for each item in the target directory
 * $dir : The path of the directory to search in
 * Attributes:
        ignoreSystemFiles: Do not include system files in the array
                Such as: ., .., DS_Store
        num: How many entries to return.  0 will return all
        ignore: Ignore this file(s)
        ignoreType: Ignore this file type(s)
 */
function phpReadDir($dir, $attributes){
        // echo "get contents<br>";
        $handle=@opendir($dir);
        // echo " dir: $dir <br>  handle: '$handle' <br>";
        if($handle){
                $contentsArr=array(); //this array holds the names of all the files in the target dir
                $index=1; //How many times the loop has run
                while ($entry = readdir($handle)) { //While there are files in the target dir
                        if($attributes['ignoreSystemFiles'] && $entry=="." 
                                || $attributes['ignoreSystemFiles'] && $entry==".." 
                                || $attributes['ignoreSystemFiles'] && $entry==".DS_Store" 
                                || $attributes['ignoreSystemFiles'] && $entry=="Thumbs.db"){
                                        $index--; //Subtract from index so the right number of entries is returned
                        }//ignoreSystemFiles
                        else{
                                // echo "ELSE! array push '$entry'\n";
                                array_push($contentsArr, $entry); //Add the files to the array
                        }//push entry
                        $index++;
                }//while
                @closedir($handle);
                return $contentsArr;
        // echo "count: ".count($contentsArr)."\n";
        }//if handle
        @closedir($handle);
        // echo "RETURNING:nothing <br>";
        return;
}//phpReadDir

//Set the directory:
$dir = "../../".str_replace(get_bloginfo('siteurl')."/", "", $templateDirectory."/functions"); // take out the host to get just the path to the theme
        //Need to add the '../../' to get to the root.  If your siteurl is the same as your homeurl you will only need 1 '../'

//Create an array with each value of the dir
$functionsArr = phpReadDir($dir, array(
        'ignoreSystemFiles' => true
));

//If there are files, include them:
if(@$functionsArr){
        foreach($functionsArr as $function){
                include('functions/'.$function);
        }
}
//^^^^^^^^^^ /include_functions ^^^^^^^^^^
?>