Question

I am using PHP 5’s scandir($dir) function to iterate through a directory and print out an xml list of files. Only, when the directory has a single quote in the name, scandir returns no items! It doesn’t return false (as it would if it failed) or generate warnings or errors – just empty. Any ideas?

$items = scandir(stripslashes($dir)); //strip slashes in case magic_quotes are on if($items === false) die('scandir returned failure'); print_r($items) 

Answer 1

I’ve tested it on windows and it worked fine. Try echo $dir; to make sure it’s what you expect.

Also, use ini_set() to make sure your error level is high enough:

ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);