PHP List Directory structure and exclude some directories -

i have php code:

$rootpath = '../admin/'; $inner = new recursivedirectoryiterator($rootpath); $fileinfos = new recursiveiteratoriterator($inner);  foreach ($fileinfos $pathname => $fileinfo) {     $pathname2 = substr($pathname,2);     $sql = "select * admin_permissions page_name = '$pathname2'";     $rs = mysql_query($sql,$conn);     if (mysql_num_rows($rs) == 0)     {         if (!$fileinfo->isfile()) continue;         $sql2 = "insert admin_permissions (page_name) values ('$pathname2')";         $rs2 = mysql_query($sql2,$conn);         echo "$pathname<br>";     } } 

that displaying directory structure , inserting directories , file names database (removing first 2 characters ..).

since recursivedirectoryiterator iterates through files in directories, how can exclude whole directories, including files within them?

in essence, answer not different thomas' answer. however, not few things correct:

• the semantics correct recursivecallbackfilteriterator require return true recurse subdirectories.
• he doesn't skip . , .. directories inside each sub-directory
• his in_array check doesn't quite expects

so, wrote answer instead. work correctly, assuming understand want:

^{edit: has since fixed 2 of 3 issues; third may not issue because of way wrote conditional check not quite sure.}

<?php  $directory = '../admin';  // exclude under these directories $exclude = array('.git', 'otherdirtoexclude');  /**  * @param splfileinfo $file  * @param mixed $key  * @param recursivecallbackfilteriterator $iterator  * @return bool true if need recurse or if item acceptable  */ $filter = function ($file, $key, $iterator) use ($exclude) {     if ($iterator->haschildren() && !in_array($file->getfilename(), $exclude)) {         return true;     }     return $file->isfile(); };  $inneriterator = new recursivedirectoryiterator(     $directory,     recursivedirectoryiterator::skip_dots ); $iterator = new recursiveiteratoriterator(     new recursivecallbackfilteriterator($inneriterator, $filter) );  foreach ($iterator $pathname => $fileinfo) {     // insertion here }