<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >opendir</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Directory functions" HREF="ref.dir.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="getcwd" HREF="function.getcwd.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="readdir" HREF="function.readdir.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.getcwd.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.readdir.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.opendir" ></A >opendir</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN20029" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >opendir -- open directory handle</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN20032" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >resource <B CLASS="methodname" >opendir</B > ( string path)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns a directory handle to be used in subsequent <A HREF="function.closedir.html" ><B CLASS="function" >closedir()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.readdir.html" ><B CLASS="function" >readdir()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.rewinddir.html" ><B CLASS="function" >rewinddir()</B ></A > calls. </P ><P > If <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >path</I ></TT > is not a valid directory or the directory can not be opened due to permission restrictions or filesystem errors, <B CLASS="function" >opendir()</B > returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > and generates a PHP error. You can suppress the error output of <B CLASS="function" >opendir()</B > by prepending `@' to the front of the function name. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN20050" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >opendir()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php if ($dir = @opendir("/tmp")) { while (($file = readdir($dir)) !== false) { echo "$file\n"; } closedir($dir); } ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P >See also <A HREF="function.is-dir.html" ><B CLASS="function" >is_dir()</B ></A >.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.getcwd.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.readdir.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >getcwd</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.dir.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >readdir</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >