You can use this to quickly find all the files (recursively) in a certain directory. This beats maintaining a stack yourself.
<?php
$directory = "/tmp/";
$fileSPLObjects = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(
new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($directory),
RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST
);
try {
foreach( $fileSPLObjects as $fullFileName => $fileSPLObject ) {
print $fullFileName . " " . $fileSPLObject->getFilename() . "\n";
}
}
catch (UnexpectedValueException $e) {
printf("Directory [%s] contained a directory we can not recurse into", $directory);
}
?>
Note: if there is a directory contained within the directory you are searching in that you have no access to read an UnexpectedValueException will be thrown (leaving you with an empty list).
Note: objects returned are SPLFileObjects
RecursiveIteratorIterator::beginChildren
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The RecursiveIteratorIterator class
(PHP 5)
Introduction
Can be used to iterate through recursive iterators.
Class synopsis
RecursiveIteratorIterator
implements
OuterIterator
{
/* Constants */
/* Methods */
public __construct
( Traversable
$iterator
[, int $mode = RecursiveIteratorIterator::LEAVES_ONLY
[, int $flags = 0
]] )/* Inherited methods */
}Predefined Constants
-
RecursiveIteratorIterator::LEAVES_ONLY -
RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST -
RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST -
RecursiveIteratorIterator::CATCH_GET_CHILD
Table of Contents
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::beginChildren — Begin children
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::beginIteration — Begin Iteration
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::callGetChildren — Get children
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::callHasChildren — Has children
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::__construct — Construct a RecursiveIteratorIterator
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::current — Access the current element value
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::endChildren — End children
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::endIteration — End Iteration
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::getDepth — Get the current depth of the recursive iteration
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::getInnerIterator — Get inner iterator
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::getMaxDepth — Get max depth
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::getSubIterator — The current active sub iterator
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::key — Access the current key
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::next — Move forward to the next element
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::nextElement — Next element
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::rewind — Rewind the iterator to the first element of the top level inner iterator
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::setMaxDepth — Set max depth
- RecursiveIteratorIterator::valid — Check whether the current position is valid
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RecursiveIteratorIterator - [5 notes]
Michiel Brandenburg ¶
4 years ago
crashrox at gmail dot com ¶
4 years ago
Recursive multidimensional array flatten using SPL
<?php
function array_flatten_recursive($array) {
if($array) {
$flat = array();
foreach(new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveArrayIterator($array), RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST) as $key=>$value) {
if(!is_array($value)) {
$flat[] = $value;
}
}
return $flat;
} else {
return false;
}
}
$array = array(
'A' => array('B' => array( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)),
'C' => array( 6,7,8,9)
);
print_r(array_flatten_recursive($array));
?>
-- Returns:
Array (
[0] => 1
[1] => 2
[2] => 3
[3] => 4
[4] => 5
[5] => 6
[6] => 7
[7] => 8
[8] => 9
)
Adil Baig @ AIdezigns ¶
2 years ago
A very important thing to note about \RecursiveIteratorIterator is that it returns a flattened array when used with the iterator_to_array function. Ex:
<?php
$arr = array('Zero', 'name'=>'Adil', 'address' => array( 'city'=>'Dubai', 'tel' => array('int' => 971, 'tel'=>12345487)), '' => 'nothing');
$iterator = new \RecursiveIteratorIterator(new \RecursiveArrayIterator($arr));
var_dump(iterator_to_array($iterator,true));
?>
This code will return :
array(6) {
[0]=>
string(4) "Zero"
["name"]=>
string(4) "Adil"
["city"]=>
string(5) "Dubai"
["int"]=>
int(91)
["tel"]=>
int(12345487)
[""]=>
string(7) "nothing"
}
To get the non-flattened proper array use the getArrayCopy() method, like so :
$iterator->getArrayCopy()
This will return
array(4) {
[0]=>
string(4) "Zero"
["name"]=>
string(4) "Adil"
["address"]=>
array(2) {
["city"]=>
string(5) "Dubai"
["tel"]=>
array(2) {
["int"]=>
int(91)
["tel"]=>
int(12345487)
}
}
[""]=>
string(7) "nothing"
}
Tom ¶
2 years ago
This class operates on a tree of elements, which is build by nesting recursive iterators into one another.
Thus you might say it is an iterator over iterators. While traversing those, the class pushes the iterators on a stack while traversing down to a leaf and removes them from the stack while going back up.
aidan at php dot net ¶
3 years ago
This example demonstrates using the getDepth() method with a RecursiveArrayIterator.
<?php
$tree = array();
$tree[1][2][3] = 'lemon';
$tree[1][4] = 'melon';
$tree[2][3] = 'orange';
$tree[2][5] = 'grape';
$tree[3] = 'pineapple';
print_r($tree);
$arrayiter = new RecursiveArrayIterator($tree);
$iteriter = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($arrayiter);
foreach ($iteriter as $key => $value) {
$d = $iteriter->getDepth();
echo "depth=$d k=$key v=$value\n";
}
?>
The output of this would be:
Array
(
[1] => Array
(
[2] => Array
(
[3] => lemon
)
[4] => melon
)
[2] => Array
(
[3] => orange
[5] => grape
)
[3] => pineapple
)
depth=2 k=3 v=lemon
depth=1 k=4 v=melon
depth=1 k=3 v=orange
depth=1 k=5 v=grape
depth=0 k=3 v=pineapple