Supported Protocols and Wrappers
PHP Manual

glob://

Find pathnames matching pattern

Description

The glob: stream wrapper is available since PHP 5.3.0.

Usage

  • glob://

Options

Wrapper Summary
Attribute Supported
Restricted by allow_url_fopen No
Restricted by allow_url_include No
Allows Reading No
Allows Writing No
Allows Appending No
Allows Simultaneous Reading and Writing No
Supports stat No
Supports unlink No
Supports rename No
Supports mkdir No
Supports rmdir No

Examples

Example #1 Basic usage

<?php
// Loop over all *.php files in ext/spl/examples/ directory
// and print the filename and its size
$it = new DirectoryIterator("glob://ext/spl/examples/*.php");
foreach($it as $f) {
    printf("%s: %.1FK\n", $f->getFilename(), $f->getSize()/1024);
}
?> 
tree.php: 1.0K
findregex.php: 0.6K
findfile.php: 0.7K
dba_dump.php: 0.9K
nocvsdir.php: 1.1K
phar_from_dir.php: 1.0K
ini_groups.php: 0.9K
directorytree.php: 0.9K
dba_array.php: 1.1K
class_tree.php: 1.8K