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PHP Functions Essential Reference
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PHP Functions Essential Reference

by Zak Greant, Graeme Merrall, Torben Wilson, Brett Michlitsch
September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
768 pages
32h 45m
English
Sams
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dir

mixed dir(string dir) 

A pseudo-object-oriented wrapper for many of the directory functions.

Returns:

Resource pointer on success; FALSE for other cases

Description:

dir() is a pseudo-object-oriented wrapper for all the directory functions that work with directory streams. It is certainly one of PHP’s oddball functions—an early experiment in implementing object-oriented features for PHP. (See the notes for an anecdote from Jim Winstead, the author of the function.)

When the function is called, it opens a directory stream to directory dir and returns an object. When the directory stream is opened, a resource pointer for the stream is created. This pointer is stored as a class property called handle and the pathname of the directory is stored ...

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