filesystems - Best way to get files from a dir filtered by certain extension in php

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Answer 1

PHP has a great function to help you capture only the files you need. Its called glob()

glob - Find pathnames matching a pattern

Returns an array containing the matched files/directories, an empty array if no file matched or FALSE on error.

Here is an example usage -

$files = glob("/path/to/folder/*.txt");

This will populate the $files variable with a list of all files matching the *.txt pattern in the given path.

Reference -

• glob()