Re: Faster read of filenames

Sonnich wrote:
I use the opendir and readdir to search for files... but they read in
all files, so sometimes I get several hundreds.
If there is a way to give a wildcard, it might be a lot faster.
Since I do this search 100+ times at certain times, this is the thing
which slows me down.
Disableing this part speeds my code up by 90%.

Any ideas?

glob()? http://php.net/glob

If your files do not change very often, it may be better to have a
file (or database) with the current files and use that instead of
searching in the file system.

<?php
$filelist = file($path . '/filelist.txt');
foreach ($filelist as $fname) {
$files[] = trim($fname);
$paths[] = $path;
}
?>

Of course you'd have to keep filelist.txt updated.

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