Question

I need to read a file in PHP, but I only know the end of the filename, so I need to serch the file in a given directory using wildcards: *filename.wav and then return it to the browser.
Is there a function to do that? or I need to get all the files in the directory and then search one by one?

Thanks for all the comments and help.

Answer 1

Take a look at the glob() function

For example if you wanted to get every file matching *abc.xyz in the subdirectory dir

$matches = glob('./dir/*abc.xyz');

Note that glob isn’t recursive and will only search a single directory and not all sub directories.