Hello ...I just was trying to output the file names of different folders in my PC using PHP code...But I found that it outputs actually more than visible files in that particular folder..So what did I mean by visible that when I count the number of files in my folder it appears 18 but when i output it appears that the numer is 20. That two files are not visible. One if the is "Folder.jpg" and the second of them is a ".doc" file i opened and think it is inserted by "Administrator".....This is the code Code: <?php function getDirectoryList ($directory) { // create an array to hold directory list $results = array(); // create a handler for the directory $handler = opendir($directory); // open directory and walk through the filenames while ($file = readdir($handler)) { // if file isn't this directory or its parent, add it to the results if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { $results[] = $file; } } // tidy up: close the handler closedir($handler); // done! return $results; } $array_1=getDirectoryList("C:\Documents and Settings\Администратор\Мои документы\Downloads"); foreach($array_1 as $value) { echo "<br/>".$value; } ?> So here is my question ...how can I output only that 18 files and not that invisible files ? Since I want to work only with files that I see. Please be gentle and help me.
I don't think those resrictions are for php or the C file system functions. Those are just for the user.I personally don't know what can be done to stop this problem a side from reading some meta data from the file and seeing if that returns any data on its status. I think that stuff is stored in the registry and only certain files are hidden so you can't just declare a type. If you use this for a website though you could write a log file and then set certain files as hidden based on name or extension. If you do write a log make sure its in a json style so it can simply be included into the file.
