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<h1 class="refname">FilesystemIterator::__construct</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">FilesystemIterator::__construct</span> — <span class="dc-title">Constructs a new filesystem iterator</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>FilesystemIterator::__construct</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$path</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$flags</code><span class="initializer"> = FilesystemIterator::KEY_AS_PATHNAME | FilesystemIterator::CURRENT_AS_FILEINFO | FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS</span></span>
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Constructs a new filesystem iterator from the <em><code class="parameter">path</code></em>.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-filesystemiterator.construct-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">path</code></em></span>
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The path of the filesystem item to be iterated over.
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">flags</code></em></span>
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Flags may be provided which will affect the behavior of some methods.
A list of the flags can found under <a href="class.filesystemiterator.html#filesystemiterator.constants" class="link">FilesystemIterator predefined constants</a>.
They can also be set later with <span class="methodname"><a href="filesystemiterator.setflags.html" class="methodname">FilesystemIterator::setFlags()</a></span>
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-filesystemiterator.construct-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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No value is returned.
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<div class="refsect1 errors" id="refsect1-filesystemiterator.construct-errors">
<h3 class="title">Errors/Exceptions</h3>
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Throws an <a href="class.unexpectedvalueexception.html" class="classname">UnexpectedValueException</a>
if the <em><code class="parameter">path</code></em> cannot be found.
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-filesystemiterator.construct-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>FilesystemIterator::__construct()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$it </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">FilesystemIterator</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">dirname</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">__FILE__</span><span style="color: #007700">));<br />foreach (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$it </span><span style="color: #007700">as </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$fileinfo</span><span style="color: #007700">) {<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$fileinfo</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getFilename</span><span style="color: #007700">() . </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />}<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div>
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<div class="cdata"><pre>
apples.jpg
banana.jpg
example.php
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-filesystemiterator.construct-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="filesystemiterator.setflags.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">FilesystemIterator::setFlags()</a> - Sets handling flags</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="directoryiterator.construct.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">DirectoryIterator::__construct()</a> - Constructs a new directory iterator from a path</span></li>
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