Re: DirectoryIterator

[Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@xxxxxxxxx>]

2010/8/2 João Cândido de Souza Neto <joao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Is there a way of getting the symbolic link's target when using
> DirectoryIterator?
>

as DirectoryIterator traverses the contents of a directory, the current()
method will return an SplFileInfo instance.

Using the SplFileInfo, you can determine if the entry is a link and if so,
dereference it

http://www.php.net/manual/en/splfileinfo.islink.php

(note: $oFile is internally being populated via $oIt->current())

<?php
$oIt = new DirectoryIterator('./');
foreach($oIt as $oFile)
  if($oFile->isLink())
  {
    echo 'link found' . PHP_EOL;
    echo 'link points to: ' . $oFile->getRealPath() . PHP_EOL;
  }
?>

-nathan