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<h1 class="refname">closedir</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">closedir</span> — <span class="dc-title">Close directory handle</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type"><span class="type void">void</span></span> <span class="methodname"><strong>closedir</strong></span>
([ <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">resource</span> <code class="parameter">$dir_handle</code></span>
] )</div>
<p class="para rdfs-comment">
Closes the directory stream indicated by
<em><code class="parameter">dir_handle</code></em>. The stream must have previously
been opened by <span class="function"><a href="function.opendir.html" class="function">opendir()</a></span>.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">dir_handle</code></em></span>
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The directory handle <span class="type"><a href="language.types.resource.html" class="type resource">resource</a></span> previously opened
with <span class="function"><a href="function.opendir.html" class="function">opendir()</a></span>. If the directory handle is
not specified, the last link opened by <span class="function"><a href="function.opendir.html" class="function">opendir()</a></span>
is assumed.
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>closedir()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$dir </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"/etc/php5/"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Open a known directory, read directory into variable and then close<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">if (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">is_dir</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$dir</span><span style="color: #007700">)) {<br /> if (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$dh </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">opendir</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$dir</span><span style="color: #007700">)) {<br /> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$directory </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">readdir</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$dh</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">closedir</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$dh</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /> }<br />}<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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