A PHP Function to get an array of files within a directory

get-contents-of-dir

/* getContentsofDir v0.1
 * This function gets the contents of a directory.
 * It returns an array ($contentsArr) of strings for each item in the target directory
 * $dir : The path of the directory to search in
 * Attributes:
        ignoreSystemFiles: Do not include system files in the array
                Such as: ., .., DS_Store
        num: How many entries to return.  0 will return all
        ignore: Ignore this file(s)
        ignoreType: Ignore this file type(s)
 */
function getContentsOfDir($dir, $attributes){
        // echo "get contents<br>";
        $handle=@opendir($dir);
        // echo "<b>getContentsOfDir</b>: 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"){
                                        $index--; //Subtract from index so the right number of entries is returned
                        }//ignoreSystemFiles
                        else if ( substr($entry, -3) != "php" ) {
                                //not a php file. Do nothing.
                        }
                        else if($attributes['ignore']
                                && in_array ( $entry , $attributes['ignore'] ) ) {
                                //do nothing
                        }
                        else{
                                array_push($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;
}//getContentsOfDir
        
//Set the contents of the target dir into an array and returns that array.  If the directory cannot be found, or if no entries were in the directory, it returns null
function setFunctionsArr($functionsDir){
        //Create an array with each value of the dir
        $functionsArr = getContentsOfDir($functionsDir, array(
                'ignoreSystemFiles' => true
                , 'ignore' => array(
                        'setEnvironment.php'
                        , 'enqueue_scripts.php'
                        , 'enqueue_styles.php'
                        , 'functions-customize.php'
                        , 'watson_setup.php'
                        , 'watson_custom.php'
                )
        ));
        if(@$functionsArr){
                return $functionsArr;
        }//if 
        else{
                return;
        }
}//setFunctionsArr
        
//Includes all the entries of an array
function includeArrEntries($myArr){
    if(@isset($myArr)){
        foreach($myArr as $entry){
                        include('functions/'.$entry);
        }//foreach 
    }//if
}//includeArrEntries