Get all subdirectories of a given directory in PHP

To get the subdirectories present in a directory, the below lines of code can be used −

Example

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<?php
   $all_sub_dirs = array_filter(glob('*.*'), 'is_dir');
   print_r($all_sub_dirs);
?>

Output

This will produce the following output. The glob function is used to get all the subdirectories of a specific directory−

Array (
   [0] => demo.csv
   [1] => mark.php
   [2] => contact.txt
   [3] => source.txt
)

To get only the directories, the below lines of code can be used−

Example

<?php
   $all_dirs = glob($somePath . '/*' , GLOB_ONLYDIR);
   print_r($all_dirs);
?>

Output

This will produce the following output. The glob function is used by specifying that only directories need to be extracted−

Array (
   [0] => example
   [1] => exam
   [2] => log
)

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Updated on: 30-Dec-2019

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