Directory Functions

Introduction

Requirements

No external libraries are needed to build this extension.

Installation

There is no installation needed to use these functions; they are part of the PHP core.

Runtime Configuration

This extension has no configuration directives defined in php.ini.

Resource Types

Predefined Constants

The constants below are defined by this extension, and will only be available when the extension has either been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime.

DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR (string)

PATH_SEPARATOR (string)

Note: The PATH_SEPARATOR was introduced with PHP 4.3.0-RC2.

See Also

For related functions such as dirname(), is_dir(), mkdir(), and rmdir(), see the Filesystem section.