How to search/scan files inside a directory using php - scandir()

Lets see how we can scan or search files inside a directory using php. You can use scandir() for this matter. scandir() will go through the given directory and return all the files in an array.

<?php

$dir_path = 'kusal/test'; //directory path
$list_files = scandir($dir_path);

//dumping the array
//hope you know how to access an array
echo '<pre>'; //html <pre> tags will format the output
print_r($list_files);
echo '</pre>';

/*
Output look like this

Array
(
    [0] => .
    [1] => ..
    [2] => TextDocument.txt
    [3] => kuppiya.doc
    [4] => lion.ppt
    [5] => test.as
)

*/

?>

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