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Article:		Working with Files in PHP, Part 3
Subject:		dir class
Date:		2003-02-06 12:31:15
From:		arjo.post@hccnet.nl
the following object creation is not working for me: $mydir = new dir('/path/to/mydir'); I get the error: Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: dir in d:\myphp\dir.php on line 2 can you help me? Thanks. Arjo

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• dir class
  2003-02-12 10:48:17  chromatic | [View]
  
  
  It was a typo; it has since been fixed. (There is no need for the "new" keyword.)

• dir class
  2003-11-19 12:28:21  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  BTW, the if(is_dir($mydir->path.$file)) part includes the .. and . "directories"... so if, like me, you just wish to display a list of sub-directories, you'll need to ignore those two entries:
  
  if(is_dir($mydir->path.$file) && !strstr($file,".")) {
  
  Great article BTW :-)
• dir class
  2005-02-09 11:43:32  poboxbot [View]
  
  
  Careful. Using strstr here will exclude all directories with a '.' character *anywhere* in its name.
  
  So while it will exclude "." and "..", it will also exclude "images.web" or "photos.icons" or whatever.
  
  Use preg_match instead:
  
  if(is_dir($path) && !preg_match("#^\.+#", $file))

• dir class
  2004-11-05 18:22:58  Tyrrael [View]
  
  
  Its kind of simple, my guess its that it depends on PHP version, por PHP 4 just remove the creation of the class thats NEW
  from:
  $mydir = new dir('/path/to/mydir');
  
  to:
  $mydir = dir('/path/to/mydir');