Weird problem using is_dir()

I'm trying to get a listing of the subdirectories in a given folder - but for some reason the is_dir()-function only returns "." and ".." even though I know there are two subdirectories in the folder.

The code I have is as follows:

$img_folder = "images/";

$list_dir = scandir($img_folder);

foreach ($list_dir as $value) {
	if (is_dir($value)) {
		var_dump($value);
		}
}

PHP:

This outputs the following: string(1) "." string(2) ".."

It should also list to other subdirectories, namely "medium" and "thumbs" - but it doesn't.

If I try running the same code, but change the $img_folder variable to = "./" I get a full listing of the subdirectories in the root folder - so what am I doing wrong? It doesn't help adding "./" in front of the folder name either... it still just gives the "." and ".." - if I hadn't known there to be two folders, I would assume it listed an empty directory.

 

The names you get from scandir() are not fully-qualified paths. You need to add the path to your call to is_dir() - for example:

is_dir("{$img_folder}{$value}")

Code (markup):

or else you will just be comparing a list of filenames from "images" against the contents of your script's current working directory. It is not surprising that the only overlap is "." and ".."

 

Ah! Lovely, thanks alot man!

That was... less than obvious, to me, at least