how to hide a file from readdir() php

Question

My code loops through a directory and displays all the files and folders where I have a index.php file that I don't want to be displayed.

<?php 

    $directory = 'jocuri';
    $row = 0;

    if ($handle = opendir($directory.'/')) 
    {
        echo '<table border="1">';    
        while ($cat = readdir($handle)) 
        {
            if ($cat != '.' && $cat != '..') 
            {
                if($row==0) echo '<tr>';

                echo '<td align="center">';
                echo '  <a href="'.$directory.'/'.$cat.'" style="text-decoration:none">';
                echo '    <img src="'.$directory.'/'.$cat.'/image.php" style="display:block" />'.str_replace('_', ' ', $cat);
                echo '  </a>';
                echo '</td>';

                if($row == 2) 
                {
                  echo '</tr>';
                  $row = -1;
                }
                $row++;
            }
        }
        echo '</table>';
    }
?>

How can i achieve that?

which type file you don't want to diaplay? – Jayram Jul 06 '13 at 12:23 — Jayram, Jul 06 '13 at 12:23
the file i want to hide is index.php – Jul 06 '13 at 12:31 — , Jul 06 '13 at 12:31

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 06 '13 at 12:32

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Staying quick and dirty:

if ($cat != '.'&&$cat != '..' && $cat != 'index.php'){ ... }

But I'll definitely move to some more consistent method like FilesystemIterator or glob().

answered Jul 06 '13 at 12:32

moonwave99

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I see from your img tag $cat/image.php you only want sub-directories. So you should check with an "is_dir" function if you've got a subdir. This way you wouldn't get index.php. But moonwave99's suggestion to look in glob() is probably better. See [here](http://nl3.php.net/glob) and [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3713588/how-do-i-exclude-non-folders-files-from-this-readdir-function?rq=1). – Rik Jul 06 '13 at 13:01

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 06 '13 at 12:31

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while($cat = readdir($handle)) {
  if (in_array($cat, array('.', '..', 'index.php')))
    continue;

  // display the file here
}

answered Jul 06 '13 at 12:31

nice ass

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how to hide a file from readdir() php

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