ID: 38022
Comment by: francois at tekwire dot net
Reported By: flconseil at yahoo dot fr
Status: Open
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Operating System: All
PHP Version: 5.1.4
New Comment:

An internal glob() implementation should also provide a flag to exclude
hidden files (Unix: starting with a dot, Windows: hidden).


Previous Comments:
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[2006-07-06 15:10:29] flconseil at yahoo dot fr

Description:
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Today, glob() calls the libc glob() function, with the following
problems:

- Possible inconsistencies between implementations (POSIX compliance)

- fnmatch not available outside of Unix : an internal glob()
implementation would bring an internal fnmatch() implementation, which
would allow fnmatch() on every platform.

- Important: on most (every ?) Unix systems, glob() is using stat()
instead of lstat(). Thus, broken links are ignored. Inconsistant with a
naive 'ls' which lists everything in the directory.

- The current glob() implementation in PHP (ext/standard/dir.c) assumes
that all returned matches are in the same directory, which is wrong. So,
the 'safe mode' and 'open_basedir' checks are wrong.

- glob() does not support streams, although most other directory
functions support them. It cannot be done without implementing glob()
internally.

- Apart from glob(), the chdir() and getcwd() functions should also
support stream-wrapped directories. It would be easy to implement but
it must be synchronized with the support of stream wrapped paths in the
include path.

Reproduce code:
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Expected result:
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Actual result:
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